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Dr. Patrick K. Porter, BrainTap® creator · Ageless and Timeless Podcast®

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Good afternoon everyone. This is Michelle Hughes from Ageless and Timeless. Today,
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I'm very, very fortunate to have a guest who I've known for a few
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months now. I met him at the American Academy of Anti Aging, which
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is the Quintessential Longevity anti Aging show that's held in Las Vegas, and we
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met in December three months ago. So welcome Patrick. Thanks for having Michelle.
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It's great to be here. Yeah, I'm glad to have you here,
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and I know you're on my time zone today, our time zone in
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LA and I really appreciate you taking much time to get away from your bioacking
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convention, so I have I'm going to give just a little bit of a
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background for our viewers, but I wanted to say before I get into your
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that I've been looking forward to this conversation for since I met you for three
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months, and I've been using your brain tap, which we're going to talk
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about today, and I have so many questions to ask you because now that
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I'm a user, you know obviously so many things generate and you're thinking about
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the brain. So today it's going to be everything about the brain, if
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that's okay with you. That's great, That's what I love to talk about.
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I guess, so you're an expert, You're a v expert. Yeah.
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Well, actually, Patrick, let me ask an open ended question first,
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what brought you to this space that you're in now and what were the
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steps that were basically the turning points in your journey to become the expert in
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the brain and to develop a brain tap instrument that is actually winning all kinds
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of awards. So we could talk about that in a moment, but just
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give us a little background on you. Yeah. Well, I think I
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was born for it. I was a very difficult student. I was held
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back in second grade, and so my brain wasn't functioning right. So my
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dad, fortunately he got help with his alcoholism through something called the Silver method,
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which is a meditation process that actually works to balance the brain using machines
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called GSR machines or galvanic skin response systems, which measures the heat in circulation
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in the hands. This was well before EG for those that know about brain
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scans and are we had to just use these are the things we knew.
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This how I started, and then my dad trained me to improve my sports.
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So I didn't realize that while I was improving my sports. I was
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going to be improving my brain for other things. And became an honor roll
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student and got a track scholarship and never was going to do this. This
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was just something I was doing with my dad. My dad then became a
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Silva method instructor, so every other weekend in Michigan we were going and giving
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seminars. So I probably set through a couple of hundred of those. And
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you know, I was going to go to school for electronics, and my
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dad was doing his thing with psychology and things of that nature. And then
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it got to the point where I was doing this as a side job and
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for about five years, and I started to find that I really liked doing
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it, and so I went back to school got my degree in psychology,
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but I still loved electronics. So I want to know, how could I
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take this these ancient traditions of really working with the brain, Because you know,
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meditation, mindfulness, people know that helps the brain, but it doesn't
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move the needle as far as your physiology or neurology. How do you want
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to think about that? And because we need to add a little bit more,
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we need to put a little gas on the fire. And that's where
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the sound and vibration comes into. When we put those things in concert with
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it, it's kind of like you know when you're at an event and they
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have the right music, you know the right environment is there. It makes
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a big difference. You know, if you've got a date with somebody and
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you've got the right atmosphere and you have a great conversation, then you have
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a great experience. So what I want to do is create an experience for
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people with the brain tap. Now, in nineteen eighty six, we endented
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the very first one, that one we called the MC square, and that
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was one that got an award way back in nineteen eighty nine, is the
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best new Gadget of the Consumer Electronic Show that was in Vegas. So and
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then if we fast forward up to two thousand and two, our app got
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the award for the Best Sleep App after Consumer Electronics Show Our Sleep Sleep our
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x app. So we're still going there, We're still showing them, We're
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still pushing the needle on how does technology help our physiology? And we just
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for me, it was all about me at first, and then how could
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I help people that were in the same situation as me with ADHD and add
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and then we found out, hey, we can help people with pain control,
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we can help people with dementia, we can help people with anxiety disorders
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and things of that nature. And now we have three thousand clinics out there
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helping us to gather data and create the clinical research we need to prove to
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people that every brain can improve. It's just you have to create the right
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environment for it to improve. It's kind of like planning a garden. You
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can have all the best seeds in the world, but if you don't work
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the environment so those seeds can take root, then you don't get a good
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garden. The same things true with our physiology and our brain works. So
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that's kind of what started me. And I just I still feel like I'm
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just kind of hanging out with my dad and although he's no longer with us,
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but you know, I'm doing this because it's something I love to do,
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and I get paid for it, so it's kind of nice too.
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Well. They say that if you can find that pearl in the oyster,
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that what you have brought here to do and the gift that you have to
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be able to realize your dreams, which is really an action plan, right.
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You can't have a dream without having hard work, sweat, perspiration,
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all that behind it. But the fact that you could find that so early
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in your life is such a gift because so many people go through their lives
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and they never know why was I brought here? What is my passion?
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What am I supposed to be accomplishing, what is how am I going to
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make a difference in the world? And all those things that you've done,
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Patrick, and you would give it that given. You should obviously thank your
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father, even through adversity and his illness, he found an answer. And
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that it's interesting and ironic and coincidental that I emailed you the other day and
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asked you about the Silver Method because I had come across some articles and I
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was curious to know what you thought. So that was just coincidental that you
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grew up with that. And that's been a life changing experience to go through
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the Silver Method classes and how it shaped your father's life and changed him and
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cured him and now of course, and then it helped you and through your
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your challenges. So well, that's a wonderful story and I hope people get
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encouraged when they hear how inspirational it is to find that passion and to be
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able to then realize your dreams, which is what you're doing every day.
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And by the way, in doing so, you're helping all these other people.
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So what a great gift Patrick. I did have a lot of questions
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that as we delve into let's talk everything the brain. My first question is
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why is it that the brain has become so much more prevalent in all the
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media, in all the Internet and just so many of more so much more
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awareness and discussion about the brain. Why do you think that has happened.
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Well, there's a couple factors. Number one is people are living longer,
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so we're finding the extent of our genetics. You know, when does it
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start wearing out? And what did our previous experiences in our life due to
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brain health? So we're finding that out. Unfortunately, a lot of people
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are way too late, you know. And also I think stress. Most
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people don't understand that chronic low level stress is probably the biggest factor in why
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people get dementia and even leads to Alzheimer's because that stress disregulates the brain.
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And in the past, we didn't know that because we didn't have technology to
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measure it. Now we can measure the brain, we can see what's going
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on over time, and we can also see is this technique that we're talking
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about does that actually improve over time? Does the brain improve? And we're
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finding that it does if you're doing certain techniques like light side of vibration and
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proper foods that you eat, and exercise and movement. There's a lot of
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things we can do to improve the brain. And we now kind of we
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have a formula that's been proven in science. And when it wasn't you know,
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when you think about it, in two thousand, before two thousand,
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everyone thought the brain couldn't change. And now there's something called neuroplasticity that's just
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all the rage, and that neuroplasticity means the brain is able to change at
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any point in time in your life, right, And that the brain is
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a muscle and it is like going to the gym to work out your other
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muscles, that you're working out your brain muscle. That people never really considered
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the brain in that way, right, that's right. Yeah, they just
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thought, hey, the brain wears down like a like a knife blade.
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And now we know, hey, that might be true, but we can
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sharpen that knife. We can do different physiological exercises and breathing techniques, and
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you know, there's different ways to keep the brain in its peak level because
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becoming more understood these days. That really it's the capacity of the brain to
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work, right, it's the energy, the energy of the brain and depth
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tailing on what you just said that the brain is the able to regenerate itself.
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And it doesn't have to be that you have a sentence of some kind
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of dementia or Alzheimer's in your future because you can regenerate your your DNA and
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the brain. You can do the things that you just mentioned that are integrative,
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like your diet and your stress levels, and so for meditation, the
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brain tap of course, that helps to help people to regenerate the organ that
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they thought was going to just deteriorate over time. So this is this is
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mind blowing really for all of us. So how can we prevent dementia and
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Alzheimer's. So this has become I think one of the biggest epidemics of our
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times. And you know what, I'm old enough to remember that when I
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was growing up, I never heard those terms. Right. Yeah, it's
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a relatively new it's a very new disorder. When you think about ancient traditions,
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they didn't keep the wisdom of the tribe with the young people. They
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kept it with the elders, so that tells us that there's a lifestyle problem
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that we're having problems with that. So the first thing people need to do.
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Of course, I'm going to talk about brain tap, but the first
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thing is your diet. You have to feed your brain. We're in a
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totally different lifestyle now. We used to feed our bodies because we're farmers,
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you know, and we'd be out there working all day, and so we
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had a high carb diet and things of that nature. Unfortunately, that actually
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robs your brain of energy because your brain needs essential fats, good fats omega
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threes primarily, so and there's other things like eating blueberries and you know,
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different things, but there's we need to feed our brain. Number two,
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we need to be moving and breathing. You know. They say that now
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sitting is the new smoking. That's because our nervous system is more of a
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nervous system of action. It's not a nervous system of sedentariness. When we're
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sedendy. The nervous system and that's really part of the brain because seventy percent
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of your nervous system is between your ears. So when you think about when
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I'm talking about nervous system, I'm including the brain in that, and I'm
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including all three brains from the heart brain to the gut brain, so all
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of these and it's all about communication. So when you're not moving but you
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have stress, like for instance, on the computer, you're working on the
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computer or playing a computer game, your brain doesn't discern if that's real or
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imagine. So, but you're not moving, but your brain thinks you're doing
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all these different things, and you know you're having all these threats and attacks.
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And so one thing to do is to eat right, get up and
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move or stand throughout the day instead of sitting, and then do some kind
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of brain fitness and that's where you know, brain tap comes in. Or
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doing some kind of breathwork or doing tai chi or yoga or dancing a physical
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exercise actually works out the brain as well. Well, you just said something
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very important to the gut, the heart and the brain axis and the microbiome
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of each and how they're integrated. So the other hot topic these days,
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and all throughout the show in Vegas, if you saw there was so much
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on the microbiome. However, the microbiome is usually referred to in the gut
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only, but we you know, and you just said how these three are
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integrated. So can you talk for a moment about just go through some of
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the concepts of good nutrition that can help the gut that will also then help
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your brain fitness number one. If you now you have to make sure you're
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taught the body type they can do it. But if you can do intermittent
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fasting, that's really good for the brain. It creates something called autopagy,
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so it clears out those what they call zombie cells and things like that that
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are just messing with the system. But as far as food goes, really
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I like the what they called the forty thirty thirty diet where it's protein,
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thirty percent you know, fats, and then thirty percent carbs, and this
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seems to be the right balance. But the reality is, if you look
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at if you're really confused, just watching an over episode of I Love Lucy,
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when Ethel and Lucy are at the at the fountain having a lunch,
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you don't see a big burger and a big gall but you see as a
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half a sandwich and a little tumbler of soda. Now I'm not a big
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I don't drink soda myself, but I mean your body can handle anything in
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moderation. The problem is that the toxic load from the foods that most people
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are consuming, and the number one culprit is sugar. So sugar is the
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death kill to the brain. So just start eliminating sugar in all the places
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you can and start increasing the good fats with a lot of people were afraid
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because we went through this fat phobia stage as Americans, you know, from
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the really the nineties into the early two thousands, and then they realized,
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hey, look it, we need that fat because our brains are suffering.
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Our brains suffer when we don't get the right fat because then we get too
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much inflammation. So number two, yeah, yeah, I was gonna say
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number two, we need to move and breathe. You know, a lot
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of people do yoga nowadays, but what they don't know is that yoga was
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all designed to get the get the person ready for meditation. So a lot
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of people do all that great yoga, but then they jump up and they
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leave the yoga studio without doing their yoga. Nidra that that's the part that
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gives the neural plasticity. The yoga itself doesn't do as much because that's stressful
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for the body. It's in the recovery phase that your brain reorganizes itself.
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So it's really important that we whether we do tai chi yoga or just close
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the windows and doors, turn the music up and dance, our body needs
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to move. In fact, there was a guy named al Carter who really
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was famous throughout the Mini tramp that everybody started selling it all these stores all
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over because it moves the lymphatic system. And he said that babies should be
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bored with a sticker on their forehead that says shake well before opening, because
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our body needs to We need to move and breathe to get our lymphatic system
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moving, and that includes our brain. So when we're doing that, our
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brain has something called the glial lymphomic system. But they now know before twenty
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fifteen, you didn't even know. You can't go back in time and find
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any medical literature about the glial lymphomic system before twenty fifteen because they didn't realize
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it until they had the instruments that showed that it turns on during level four
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sleep. But if you're too stressed out, you don't ever reach level four
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sleep. So it's really key, and part of that movement is we need,
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we need periods of high intense effort and then we need and we need
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times of low total re recharge relaxation because that that helps with something called heart
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rate variability. And this is what they now know is we have the electrical
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system, which is the brain between our ears, but we have the magnetic
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system, which is our heart, which is much more powerful and actually can
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be registered up to eighteen feet away from a person. So but these two
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organized, these two organizing fields, which now NIH calls the bio field.
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So they're starting to get more into energy medicine just because we have to take
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into account every part of our you know, our physiology, our psychology,
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and also this quantum part of our nature. You know, they don't really
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know how the brain works still, so that's where the brain fitness comes in.
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But if you're not eating right, and you're not you're not moving and
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breathing, which one of these can help you, you know, with your
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longevity and with your health. But when you put these three together and you
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add in the brain fitness part, what happens is you get the synergy effect.
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It's not one plus one plus one is three. It's one plus one
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plus one is nine, you know, because the body, the body goes
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to a superstate and starts to heal you. Yeah, so it's at yes,
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one plus one does plus one does not equal three in castall right,
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it's greater than the whole, greater than the sum of the parts. But
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so does that explanation help people to understand why Alzheimer's in dementia are such epidemics
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in our world today and weren't weren't even words in our vocabulary fifty years ago.
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Well, there's one of the biggest problems is the medication that's out there
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that strips the body of it of its fats in their bloodstream because there there's
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a big misnomer about cholesterol, and so they put people on this cholesterol lowing
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lowering drug and it strips out your brain is almost all fat. Right,
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that's a very good point. Fortunately, when you're taking the statins, you
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are clearing out the fats. So that's and it's crazy because everybody seems to
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be on them and they'll get there. There's also been a big rise in
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neuropathy because it's gonna the miling sheath that that basically protects us from getting painful
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reactions to our nervous system. Uh, that's no longer present because that's made
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out of fat. So our body is being stripped of it. And here's
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the here's the real problem is they're checking the cholesterol from the blood stream,
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but the problem of people have is in the capillaries. So there was a
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study done with peanut oil, and you know, peanut oil became all the
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rage because they did this study with monkeys and they showed that there's none of
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this peanut oil in their blood stream. They thought, wow, we found
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this magical oil. But every monkey in the study died within a year.
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And that study and what they found out when they did the when they basically
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cut them open, found out what happened is all that pat got depositing their
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capillaries. This is why I believe every person on earth should be taking a
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low dose of niacin or B three because that niacin in the flush will help
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to keep the capillaries clear of the fats flogging up the system. You know,
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I think that you're talking about this because doctor Graham Simpson, who's going
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to be a guest on my podcast a couple of weeks. But I was
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reading his new book and he mentions you and that you've been friends for a
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long time. You know who I'm talking about, Yes, Graham Simpson so,
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and he talks about cholesterol is one of the greatest hoaxes of all time
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because people, you know, these people of pushing the pharmaceutical industry, pushing
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Staton drugs. But people don't really understand the cholesterol is not bad. Cholesterol
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is actually good. If it's a good cholesterol, and it is you know
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what you just said, it is the highest percentage is in the brain and
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uh, and the liver needs the cholesterol. However, it's just gotten such
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a bad rap and they do it so like it's so simplistic instead of scientific.
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And yeah, they're they're looking at you, they're looking at the body
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like it's an automobile. And then all you have to do is change out
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this spark plug or change the catalytic converter. And the problem is that your
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body is like beads on a string. You pull on one string and it
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basically everything's connected. There's no there's no disconnection from your adrenal function to your
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vegas nerve stimulation. And what's the problem is now is our medical field has
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become so specialized. They've become really, lack of a better word, ignorant
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about how the whole system works. The system works as a whole. We
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don't it doesn't work our physiologicum. There's so much that that they just jump
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on one thing or another. And I think it's good to have specialists,
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but they've got to be educated in how it all works and not just take
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one piece of data and go off. And you know, the drug companies
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they're just looking for Hey, we've got this short term study. It shows
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that we took cholesterol out of the bloodstream. But then the only test is
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on the American public or the world. American takes ninety percent of the drugs
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in the world, So you know what happens is the you know we're going
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to find There's there's a lot of movies that they're like uh stanton nation people
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can watching. I mean a lot of people don't realize that that cholesterol is
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like a fire department and it's it's putting down this coat so you don't get
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inflammation. As soon as you clear out the cholesterol, your inflammation goes through
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the roof. Right. You need to have your doctor be uh informed by
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you Sometimes they don't. They don't offer this, but they need to do
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the blood testing that is breaking down into the the the good cholesterol, the
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bad cholesterol, the apo lightpoprotein A and B, and all the things that
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will show you whether you are even measuring your carotid artery just just to basically
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see whether you have what you just mentioned, which is you know, the
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capillaries and the arteries being being filled with the bad cholesterol. That's where heart
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attacks occur, not your absolute cholesterol. And the brain, as you said,
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is mostly fat. So you know, if you if you rob the
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body of absolute cholesterol, you're you're taking away the nutrition of the brain,
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as you've pointed out. So Patrick, talk about if you would the different
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brain state, So I think people, yeah, you know, get confused,
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so you know the alpha. Would you go through each one and just
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tell us what each one is. Yeah, when we think about now we
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need every brain wave. There's no like villain brainwave. It's really think of
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it as state dependent brain waves. So I always tell people your brain waves
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are like healing Wi Fi systems. If we don't have those, and I'm
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going to talk a little bit about what they are doing to the body.
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But let's start with beta, where we're talking right now, and this means
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our prevailing awareness is in beta. This is where we're awake, we're functioning,
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we can interact and react to situations. It's also the beta brain is
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the only brain state where you feel pained. So the more stressed you are,
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the more anxious you are, the more your pain amplifies. So in
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order to get people out of pain, we need to drop them out of
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beta and get them into more of an alpha state. Alpha. Most everybody
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who's going to be listening to this has been in alpha before. Go ahead
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you for one second. I just this was a question that came to mind.
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So in the beta state, that's the thinking that's your thinking state,
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and that is where you would have your fear and anxiety and frustrations and all.
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So that's the state that you really don't want to be in. Like
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when they say I'm overthinking something, that would be the beta. Yeah,
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if if you have more than forty five percent of your brain in beta,
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because it's a mixture of brainwaves that are happening all the time. But if
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you have more than forty five percent, you will get over anxious, also
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overtired. You at the end of the day, you'll just to be exhausted.
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You won't even be able to watch a television program or something you said
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on the couch, you pass out. So the as the as, the
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as, the body and mind work together. What happens is the best brainwave
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state. And then I'll go through them all, just everybody. We kind
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of get the whole brain waves seen out there. Forty five percent beta,
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thirty percent alpha, in about ten percent data, and then the rest is
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split between delta and gamma. And then I'll talk about why we have to
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have that mixture. We call it a full spectrum brainway. And if we're
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missing, for instance, let's say that you have not enough beta and you
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have let's say a forty five percent alpha and thirty percent data, now you're
27:17
going to have a tension deficit with hyperactive tendencies. I see that brain profile
27:23
all the time, So we would have to train their brain to Now,
27:27
if you're're a creative person or you're in an art class, or you're in
27:32
a creative problem solving, that might be the right brain state for you.
27:36
Because you're a you know, you create kind of a field of infinite possibility
27:38
because your brain is kind of wide open because the alpha state is that daydreaming
27:44
state. And that's why they say that Einstein functioned mostly in ten Hurts,
27:48
which is alpha, and he was fond of He was fond of saying that,
27:52
you know, that's why time is not Time is only really fixed in
27:59
beta. When you get into alpha, time is suspended. And Einstein's very
28:03
very famous quote is you know, when you're around a beautiful woman for an
28:07
hour, it seems like a minute. You're sitting in a hot stove for
28:10
a minute, it seems like an hour. So you know, when you
28:12
outside of time, alpha state puts you outside of time. Okay, timeless,
28:18
yes, podcast ageless and timeless s though I guess part of my podcast
28:23
is in the alpha state, right that's right? Well, yeah, And
28:27
you want to get into the alpha state as much as possible that you can,
28:32
because that's when your body liberates and starts turning on the parasympathetic system.
28:37
This sympathetic system, which is your fight or flight is activated by beta.
28:41
That's where your reticular activating system resides, that primitive part of our brain that
28:45
keeps us safe. It is always observing our environment and saying, hey,
28:48
am I Okay here, am I all right to move forward? You know,
28:52
it's also that critical part of our nature. Let me get into alpha,
28:55
that criticism kind of goes away and you're in this. I tell people
28:59
that think of beta brain as like the lawyers, and the alpha brain is
29:03
like the California surfers. You know, that's the difference, you know,
29:07
you know, yeah, so we need to have both of them. Now
29:10
when we get to theta, this is a place that very few people are
29:14
able to get to in meditation. Even though if you went on the internet
29:17
you think everybody's getting the theta. I can tell you after scanning thirty thousand
29:21
brains over the last ten years, I can count on one hand how many
29:25
people who meditate without brain tap get the theta. They all think they are,
29:29
but it's it's a very small brainwave. It's a very small bandwidth from
29:33
seven to four herds, and it's something that we moved through in the morning
29:38
and at night usually we're going to bed unless you're practicing some kind of meditation
29:44
or mindfulness or using brain tap. Now theta. We call this the inventive
29:48
mind because when I was doing my research for my first book, which was
29:52
called awakened the genius. I noticed that almost every inventor, and I think
29:56
now I could probably say every inventor had some strategy. When they didn't have
30:00
a solution to a problem in their lab, they would go into an altered
30:03
state and they would come up with the solution, whether it was too like
30:07
they say that Edison would take a cat nap with a fork in his hand
30:11
and a pan underneath it, and he would go to sleep with a problem,
30:15
and when the spoon or the fork hit the pan, the solution would
30:19
come into his mind. And he got that idea from jet fighters during World
30:23
War two or airplane five. They didn't have jets back then, but they
30:27
would. Basically, they told him they could sleep as long as they wanted,
30:30
as long as they could hold onto the spoon. So they were getting
30:37
these guys, they were getting them to believe that they got all the sleep
30:40
they needed, but it was only sometimes forty five minutes or an hour.
30:44
And so then when you get into Delta, Delta is the also a timeless
30:48
place. All the states below, but Delta is a truly timeless place.
30:55
Most people out there have had a dream and they felt like they were trapped
30:57
in that dream and then when they dream was over, they woke up.
31:02
I'm glad that was a dream. I can't believe that was happening. The
31:03
reality is that the average dream less seven seconds. So how many dreams do
31:10
we have at night? There could be literally hundreds, if not thousands dreams.
31:14
You could even have a whole life experience in your dreams and it might
31:17
only take five or ten minutes. So in the process of that's also when
31:22
you get that deep cycle. You have to get that level for sleep.
31:26
So if anyone out there has ever been sleeping and they woke up but they
31:30
had sleep paralysis, you were in deep level sleep. Because what happens during
31:36
that level of sleep the brain literally goes offline and that's when the glial lymphomic
31:41
system activates. So I tell people, think of Henry Ford and you're making
31:45
model ts and you need to clean the line. You're not going to have
31:48
them working while you're cleaning the line. The line's gonna shut down. You're
31:52
going to clean the line, then you're going to go back to work.
31:55
That's the way the brain works, and so usually this happens seven or eight
31:59
times while you're sleeping. That's why if you're using something like the ore ring
32:04
or the biostrap or any of these other whoops you'll see if you're tracking your
32:09
ship score. The sleep is more like a wave. It's not like you
32:15
dropped down into delta and stayed there for four hours. And then those four
32:20
have really been the ones that most people think about, but there's a lot
32:22
more. But the one that's really coming on strong now because of dimension Alzheimer's
32:27
which you were talking about, is gamma. And gamma is the bass drum
32:30
of the brain. So when when gamma gets disregulated, we should have anywhere
32:36
between you know, three to seven percent gamma activity. Most people we scan
32:40
have zero. You know, it's not even there. And so that's one
32:45
of the reasons why the brain just gets disregulated. So once the brain gets
32:51
in that bass drum gets in there. You know, it's kind of like
32:52
having a marching band. If we didn't have that bass drum keeping the cadence,
32:57
the band would get all out of tune. The same as true with
33:00
the brains. So that's why studies like an m I t And when I
33:04
went there when they were doing the study on the blue light therapy at forty
33:07
hurts, I basically went there and showed them the brain tap and I'm really
33:13
upset that we didn't have them sign a nondisclosure because they actually came up with
33:16
a headset that that flashes at forty hurts frequency. We do the same thing
33:21
with brain tap, but we thought of it first, but they actually proved
33:23
that that blue light flashing at forty hurts frequency. The thing that we proved
33:29
was you can't just keep at forty hurts frequency. Ours can go up to
33:31
as high as eighty five cycles per second. So we need to train the
33:36
brain to have these these really superstates where the brain clears out the neurofunction and
33:43
then you return back to let's say normal time for actual a better word,
33:47
and then you're able to process your day to day activity with more energy.
33:52
Is the gamma where taking acetal choline and gamma would be the most beneficial.
34:01
Yeah, your brain. Each of these brain waves, by the way,
34:05
is triggering your gut to make these neurotransmitters you know, are made in the
34:12
gut, or more so, when we're in alphare, our brain is the
34:15
primary one the brain starts to make as a set of choline. When we're
34:17
in theta, it's gabba, and gabba's a precursor to DMT. So when
34:22
you think about people having spiritual experiences when they're in these deep states or in
34:27
these gamma states like the Buddhist a depths, that's because their brain is teeming
34:30
with these neurotransmitters. Because the brain is the most powerful pharmacy on earth.
34:35
It can dispense thirty thousand different neurochemicals. So when, of course, a
34:38
lot of people just think of delta and seratonin. But the biggest reason we
34:44
have BETA is the problem is dopamine. You know, there's even a book
34:47
called Dopamine Nation, because we that most people don't know the dopamine is triggered
34:54
not by the act of doing something. So when somebody has an addiction,
34:58
it's not the addiction that that's causing the dopamine. It's the thought about the
35:02
addiction that's creating the dopamine. And that's why they can never it never satisfies
35:07
them. You know, I tell people, when when I was in college,
35:12
we'd we'd all you know those guys, we'd all get dressed up,
35:15
We're going to go out and do our thing, and then we get to
35:16
the nightclub and it's never as fun as it was while we were thinking about
35:20
it in our head, you know, And that that happens to the that
35:22
happens to the attic because it's a thought of what you're going to it's the
35:25
anticipation the excitement that does it, not the excitement as well. So just
35:31
for a moment, let's talk about the neurotransmitters are very important I think in
35:36
our world to in our very toxic world today, that people understand that there
35:42
are ways to generate good good feelings and that is a biochemical um as well
35:47
as as spiritual, emotional, physical, you know. But this this neurotransmitters
35:53
really are the focus for generating the well as you said, serotonin, dopamine,
36:01
and i'll eephrine. So what do you talk for a moment about how
36:06
they all work and how we can tap into that if we want to start
36:10
feeling more positive about the experience for having in the world. Right, I'll
36:15
tell I'll talk first about how we would do it in traditional ancient times,
36:20
because what we've done is we've taken what they did in ancient traditions. We've
36:23
made this modern technology called brain tap. So whether you have the brain tap
36:27
or not, one of the ways. In Japan they call it forest bathing
36:30
and basically just taking a walk out in nature because nature actually has a resident
36:36
frequency of about ten hurts, that's alpha. So whether you're sitting by the
36:39
ocean or taking a walk in the woods, your body sinks to that because
36:44
every gene pair and every DNA pair is always changing, actually at a rate
36:49
of every forty seconds DNA pair, and your body is changing based on where
36:54
you're at in the universe. So what foods have you eaten, what people
36:58
have you talked to, what are you doing? Your body is constantly changing.
37:05
That's why I tell people when you think about neuro transmitter production and what's
37:08
going on, your body doesn't want the neuro transmitters from this morning right now.
37:13
He wants the neuro trailers at the moment. So think of your body
37:15
more like a river. You know, when I look at a river,
37:16
people go, that's the Mississippi River, and I'll say, well, that's
37:21
this moment's Mississippi River. Because the water that was there this morning is now
37:23
downstream. So a lot of people are looking at the downstream functioning of the
37:29
body, and the reality is that we're our body works best in a flow
37:32
state. What I mean. What I mean by that is when what we
37:37
need at the moment we adjust, amplify, and then project out into our
37:40
world, our reality. So as we as we work with that being.
37:45
That's why so many people are talking about being in the moment. So today
37:50
we're under so much stress. The average person looks at their phone over three
37:53
hundred times a day. We did a study in our clinic research facility where
38:00
we put a person's phone in another room. They could not hear it,
38:04
We silenced it, and we had them hooked up to EG. Every time
38:07
they got a notification their brain, they had a cortical response in their reptilian
38:14
brain, which means that their brain was hearing it or being signaled by it,
38:19
almost like a quantum entanglement. Even though they couldn't hear it, they
38:22
couldn't see it, they didn't even know what was going on, but their
38:24
body knew it. You know. It's kind of like when there's a lot
38:29
of research now going on about how do people know, Like how do you
38:31
know when somebody's looking at you? You know, you're sitting there and you
38:35
have this feeling like somebody's looking at you. Then you turn and they are
38:37
you know. That's because we are connected. There's no disconnection here, and
38:45
when our brain's operating at its highest level of efficiency, we're processing more data.
38:50
So we process a lot of data, but what happens is we isolate
38:53
it and we remove it from our conscious awareness because it's too much information at
38:58
any one time. Just as a fun fact, a couple of fun facts
39:02
for people, our eyes process about two thousand pieces of information every second,
39:07
but our eyes send to our brain over ten million pieces of information. So
39:14
as a neuroscientist, we'd say, you're making this all up, you know.
39:17
And one of the big examples they have is, you know, when
39:21
you can't find the salt shaker in the kitchen, but somebody who's you know,
39:23
you're with says it's right there in the counter, and he says,
39:27
no, it's not. Then they walk out and there it is. It's
39:29
because they say we only render about twenty percent of our world. I mean,
39:34
we render one hundred percent, but we only really process or see twenty
39:38
percent. Hearing everyone is hearing about twenty five thousand pieces of information every second,
39:45
but we only process about two thousand pieces of information. Hearing is what
39:50
you're saying you're scry to interrupret what you're saying. Is that just like when
39:53
you're in the gym if you're trying to exercise muscles but you're not getting to
39:59
the level of actual change in your muscle fitness because you're doing the same thing,
40:06
but it's not getting you the improved results. Is that similar to yes,
40:12
yeah, so we want to that's why. That's why when you do
40:15
these mindfulness exercises or brain tap, you're silencing all of this information and you're
40:21
letting the brain take really a brain break so that it can reassess at night.
40:28
This is the most powerful time for the hippocampus because at night, when
40:30
we go to sleep, the hippocampus one of its main jobs is to process
40:35
things that we've seen, heard, and experience during the day, sort organize
40:38
and put them into perspectives so if we need them in the future, we
40:42
can recall them. But if we all know that under stress, we don't
40:45
have the same memory as we do when we're relaxed and comfortable. That's because
40:49
of blood flow and circulation decreases in the hippocampus under stress, fear, anxiety,
40:54
and you know, if we think about the last three years. Most
40:58
people are just waiting for the other shoot drop. You know, they don't
41:01
they're not anticipating the world getting better. Unfortunately, most people are anticipating the
41:06
world getting worse. I think that we need to look at the world more.
41:09
We have something called the psychoimmunology factor, meaning that our thoughts actually either
41:19
improve our immunology. World a series of threats, our immune system shuts down.
41:23
If we look at the world as a series of challenges, it bolsters
41:28
the immune system and functions better. So we have to kind of change.
41:30
And that's why you're having an optimistic view of the world is much better than
41:35
having a pessimistic view of the world. And that's why when Napoleon Hill said
41:39
what you believe you can achieve or what you think about you'll bring about.
41:43
Those are very accurate statements and perceptive statements for what you're talking about, because
41:50
that is looking at the well. I hate to say the old average,
41:52
but the glass to me, the glass should be overflowing, not have fully
41:58
Yeah, yeah, they say they somebody said, you're missing the point.
42:00
The glasses refillable too. Well, what is the Let's go through for a
42:07
moment, because our time is going to run out and I knew this would
42:10
happen. But if you're just for a moment, go through the neuro the
42:15
power, and the sympathetic nervous system, so people understand that whole autonomic nervous
42:20
system regulation that. I know you did that test when we were at the
42:24
show, and I would like to spend a moment on that too, But
42:29
can you just go through and define each of those nervous system states. Yeah,
42:36
So when we're when we're relaxed and comfortable, we're around people that we
42:39
love and they give us a lot of leeway. Typically we're in a state
42:43
called the parasympathetic system. That's the rest relaxed digest system, and we should
42:47
be a third of that. We should be like if we're on idol,
42:51
we're in neutral. We should have about a third of our nervous system functioning
42:54
in that realm. These are called They measure them by high frequency wave,
43:00
slow frequency waves, and ultra high frequency waves. So our body can register
43:05
these through our heart because our heart is actually the one. Think of the
43:07
heart also as the conductor. It's it's actually telling the nervous system what to
43:12
do. That's why there's more heart attacks on Monday morning than any other day
43:15
of the week because people don't have their heart in their job. So but
43:19
there's the most people get triggered, which means stressful events happen, and it
43:24
shuts down their nervous system because the sympathetic system that's the fighter flight system comes
43:30
online. Now before the fight or flight system, there's the freeze system.
43:35
Every animal plays possum and if we do that enough, what happens. It
43:38
interrupts the system. So if you get enough interruptions, the brain or the
43:45
body will start to think that's normal. So we want to be we want
43:51
to be in the flow, in a flow state. So there's the third
43:54
system of the body. It's called the neural hormonal system. And this is
43:59
really where talking about the adrenals or physiology. Most people, unfortunately regulate their
44:05
nervous system through their biological system, which means they drink coffee to wake up
44:09
in the morning, they take something to go to sleep. They in the
44:14
middle of the afternoon when they should be doing a brain tap session or doing
44:16
a mind pfulness exercise. At two o'clock in the afternoon, they have a
44:21
cup of coffee or tea. And these are all times that when we use
44:24
the biological system. It's okay to do that occasionally, But think of that
44:30
system like your backup generator. So you want to if you use your backup
44:35
generator all the time and then a real storm happens, you're not going to
44:37
have the fuel to get you through that storm. So that's what happened to
44:42
a lot of people during the years of twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.
44:45
They didn't have a backup system. They were already they were already maxed out.
44:49
So but when these three are regulating. I love this statement that Mike
44:52
Tyson said. Everybody has a plant, they get hit. Your nervous system
44:59
should be able to get hit. For instance, if you're wondering, if
45:01
you're yeah, yeah, if you if you're one of the people that let's
45:06
say you're driving through town, somebody cuts you off, it's okay to get
45:09
upset. I mean, that was a life threatening experience, you know,
45:13
But if you're still talking about it four or five hours later, you probably
45:15
have just regulated nervous system, because we should get over it, you know.
45:21
I love gandas said in his book Autobiography of Yogi, says the difference
45:25
between children's and adults is children will get upset angry and get over it.
45:30
Parents would talk about what the children were getting angry about for three or four
45:32
days. So we need to we need to get rid of the negative and
45:37
just focus on that positive. Right, let it, let it go right?
45:40
Yes, I love that expression, just get over it. Well,
45:45
before I want to be sure that we I know I maybe didn't let you
45:51
answer that whole question, but I want to be sure that we talked about
45:53
the brain chaps. So give us an elevator three thousand sheet above sea level.
46:00
Let's say, just give us a little bit of an overview of the
46:02
brain tap and what people can do to access and use the brain tap to
46:09
improve their brain energy. Okay, so we've known for a long time,
46:15
actually since the eighteen hundreds that sound can affect the brain. They didn't know
46:20
what it was doing, but they knew that the brain would balance, and
46:22
they called these things binaural beats. So that means we put a frequency of
46:28
different durations in the into the ear. Let's say three hundred hurts in money
46:34
and the other. It doesn't have to be those specific, but this is
46:35
an example the brain. Here's a phantom sound. Well, This is the
46:38
first step. When I first got involved with light and sound research, we
46:42
wanted to see how we'd balance the brain, and then we then we did
46:45
it with light. So you think about the eyes in the ocular system.
46:50
There's a lot of research out there for retinal flashing. Your eyes have more
46:54
mitochondria per square inch than any other part of the body. Now, the
46:58
brain has the most andrea, but the eyes actually absorb light and transmit light.
47:04
So what happens is if we want to get light into the brain,
47:07
the eyes are one of the best ways, but your eyes are closed when
47:09
you're doing with brain tap because you don't need a lot of light to make
47:12
this happen. And we use four seventy nanometer light in our studies, especially
47:16
our sleep studies. We have shown, like with coal miners in Australia,
47:22
that they had a seventy percent improvement in sleep in three weeks by using brain
47:27
tap right before they went to bed. And then so what we did over
47:30
time is we found out how can we make enhancement experience. So we added
47:32
the ear lights. A lot of people go, what do you have lights
47:36
in the ears for? Well, the best way to deliver energy to the
47:38
brain is not only through the eyes, but through the ears because all the
47:42
blood in the body passes through the ears, So we can in the way
47:46
photobiomodulation works is the red blood cells absorb the light energy and it circulates the
47:52
body till it finds a cell that is dying with the call apoptosis, and
47:55
then if the light can if the energy can get there before the cell dies,
48:00
that cell will actually absorb that energy and the CREB cycle that starts up
48:05
the cell will come up again. They actually, they actually when you think
48:08
about ageless and timeless, they have proven that the cells if we can give
48:14
the cells the right energy in the form of lights on and vibration and we
48:17
can detox those cells. There's no reason that a cell can't stay alive forever.
48:22
The only reason experience or it doesn't get the toxins assistently. So with
48:31
brain tap, what we're doing is you're going to put this on. We're
48:35
going to isolate lights on and vibration. So we're taking the senses of the
48:37
brain and we're teleporting them from just sitting in a chair relaxing to a frequency
48:44
response. So the brain doesn't know the difference between being next to that body
48:49
of water, that ocean or that liver, that river or that stream,
48:52
or walking on a nature then listening to a brain tap session because the brain
48:55
only interprets light, sound, and vibration, so we're giving it the same
49:00
frequency response as if it was going on a forest walk, but you're laying
49:05
there relaxing, So the brain gets the same benefits of a deep powerful sleep
49:09
what we call a power NAPP in as little as ten minutes, fifteen or
49:14
twenty minutes, and the brain reboots at that point. And once the brain
49:16
reboots, then the nervous system can regulate again and balance out the brain.
49:22
So there's a lot of different exercises, but that's from thirty thousand foot and
49:25
you know, it's one of those things. Once you experience it over time,
49:29
you'll really start to feel the benefits. Even if you're not using the
49:32
headset, you can just use the app. People have the same group in
49:37
Australia. We had half of them doing just the app and it took them
49:40
six weeks to get to the same place. So you can do it with
49:44
the app, a loan, or you can supercharge it with the headset well.
49:46
Not to be promoting a more expensive option but I can say from the
49:52
first hand experience it when I tried the app first, it didn't do for
49:59
me. The headset does. And I think it is the light, the
50:02
blue light that is. I think I'm just a tougher case, you know,
50:07
because my brain is always my energy, and my brain is very high
50:12
and it doesn't relax as a lot and probably has a lot of stress for
50:15
you know, all the challenges. So when I got with the headset and
50:20
the lights just helped to basically turned down everything and help me to relax and
50:25
the stressed. I don't know if you've had that same feedback from whether executives,
50:31
but I think that was my experience anyway. So if anyone is the
50:36
same as me, where they're very go go and alpha type and they have
50:42
a hard time getting their brain to slow down, I think the headset,
50:45
which is what six hundred and forty seven, is that what the prices?
50:50
Yes, yes, me, it's worth it to invest if you are looking
50:54
at the both options. The the app only is you know a sub ryptian
51:00
see for months and you can use your bluetooth. But honestly, being being
51:06
really really transparent here, I just didn't feel when I got to headset.
51:10
It was like a world of difference. Yeah, well, they say all
51:15
unhappiness stems from unfavorable comparisons, so you got to compare the two. When
51:20
the people urgings about the headset, you know, it's kind of like back
51:27
in the time of the pioneers, they thought a wagon train was the fastest
51:30
way to get across the country. Luckily I flew on an airplane to California
51:34
from from North Carolina. You know, so there's I think the headset is
51:37
like I think the headsets like taking rocket ship rather than you know, we've
51:40
actually proved in India where we were measuring Dreu's brains and we could get anyone
51:45
to have the same brain profile as a guru. Now they're not going to
51:47
the same place. I don't want to make that claim, but the brain's
51:50
physiological state could be in the same deep, relaxing state as a guru in
51:53
as little as three sessions. Well, I think your statement at the very
51:59
beginning that stress is probably the biggest challenge. I was going to ask you
52:06
how you're you know, scientifically, how you're going to take that challenge,
52:09
Like you say you're going to You're going to uh cure. What was it,
52:15
a billion brains and the mission to better a billion brains? That was
52:20
your your mission statement, and I was thinking when I read that, Yeah,
52:24
we'll figure out how we can decrease the amount of stress in people's lives,
52:30
because, particularly over the last couple of years with the pandemic, that
52:35
you really tested tested all the theses that you have, I'm sure in your
52:38
in your brain tap and how you probably that challenge is actually a great opportunity
52:45
for you, and you probably had a lot more people coming to you because
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they needed help. They need help. But so I just so just in
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that subject of the billion brains at a time the mission statement, one of
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the biggest challenges facing you in that quest, well, the biggest thing is
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people. There's a statement that says spirit is simple, but man is complex.
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It's a simple solution, and most people don't. They oversimplify even the
53:16
simple solution, and they don't understand the time. It's not a one and
53:23
done thing. It's about how do we do it. It's kind of like
53:25
going to the gym. If you go to the gym once, you're not
53:28
going to build any muscles, So you've got to go over and over again
53:31
over time and form a lifestyle habit. And I think I think we're in
53:35
a better place today than we've ever been. I mean, in the eighties,
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people looked at us like we were from another planet and they didn't believe
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anything that we had. Now we have the science that backs it up,
53:44
and we can actually measure with people like you saw at the E four M
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and people. That makes a big difference when you can actually show them some
53:50
science. Right. Well, on that positive note, I want to say
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thank you so much for joining us today. I wish we had another hour
53:59
because there's so many more things that we could delve into. However, there'll
54:04
be hopefully another opportunity to have you back. And I did want to say
54:08
a big thank you for allowing me to experientially be uh, you know,
54:15
a a user before I did this podcast. Is it really helps me to
54:21
be far more clear about what the benefits and the and even the drawbacks.
54:27
I mean there maybe there wasn't there were no drawbacks for me. I was
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completely compliant. I loved it. I still use it, but I've been
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traveling so it's difficult to take the maybe some people do, but I was
54:42
finding that a little bit of a challenge when you travel to have the headset.
54:46
But but I did want to give you a compliment and say, you
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know, you send it in a beautiful packaging, The directions are very clear,
54:54
the support online is very helpful, the customers service is impeccable. There's
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just so many things that I could say as an advocate, um, but
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I did want you to know as the founder that there's there's a there's a
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big fan right here in California, in San Francisco who you got to try
55:15
this and we'll continue to use it. So that's great. Yeah, I'll
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be available again when we can do once you use it for a while more.
55:23
Well, let's get on the phone and answer the rest of those questions.
55:28
I would love that, Patrick, thank you so much. Okay,
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Well, I want to let our viewers know that we are now on Muscle
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and Fitness if you haven't been following that. So in addition to United Broadcasting
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Network, which is one of the oldest podcast companies in America, and that's
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the awareness as much larger as well. Even though we are distributed to all
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So if you go to Muscle and Fitness Plus online, you'll see the anti
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don't forget to subscribe if you like what you've heard, and or push the
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light button which will tell us anything that feedback that you have to send me
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an email or call me if you like. My email is the Michelle Hughes
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Company at gmail dot com and Michelle is one L and my phone number is
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eight h eight sixty three nine zero nine zero four. I'm happy to speak
56:44
with you, and actually, Patrick, I know you were going to offer
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our viewers some kind of a consideration and I would just run out of time.
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So if I could have your office, just tell me what that is,
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I'll put it on my my Michelle recommends on my website. Sure,
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yeah, we'll do that. Okay, thank you. I'm sorry, so
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sorry we ran out of time, but I want to thank you again and
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tell everybody to have a beautiful, a beautiful weekend and enjoy this nice weather
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we're finally having in California, Patrick, while you're visiting us. Yes,
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yeah, it looks beautiful, So all right, thank you, Michelle with
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a quart to scene. You get in live when we can, and then
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we'll get on we'll get on one of these zooms again and answer some more
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questions as well. All right, thank you,