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- 0:00Speaker 1: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those
- 0:03Speaker 1: of the participants and do not necessarily reflect those of
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- 0:12Speaker 1: treated as a replacement for diagnosis or treatment. Please consult
- 0:15Speaker 1: your healthcare provider of choice regarding any personal changes to
- 0:18Speaker 1: your health or treatment plan. What if the next great
- 0:23Speaker 1: technological revolution isn't about changing our phones, our cars, or
- 0:28Speaker 1: our computers, but changing the human body itself? Around the
- 0:32Speaker 1: world people are experimenting with technology, implants, genetic engineering, and
- 0:37Speaker 1: biohacking in an effort to become stronger, younger, smarter, even
- 0:41Speaker 1: more attractive. But where does improving the human body end?
- 0:46Speaker 1: and attempting to redesign God's design for humanity begin? Are
- 0:52Speaker 1: we already taking the first steps towards merging humanity with technology?
- 0:57Speaker 1: And what happens if we go too far? We're going
- 0:59Speaker 1: to be talking about all of that today, right now. Hello, everybody,
- 1:10Speaker 1: and welcome back to Life TV Now, where we unpack
- 1:13Speaker 1: all matters of truth, faith, and freedom. I'm your host,
- 1:16Speaker 1: Joe Artishorn. Today's program is a powder keg of very
- 1:20Speaker 1: timely information, and I can't wait to dive in. But
- 1:22Speaker 1: before we do, let me introduce who's here. She's an
- 1:25Speaker 1: integrative nutrition health coach with a master of science and
- 1:28Speaker 1: health education. Please welcome our executive director, Jamie Woodall. And
- 1:38Speaker 1: she's a credentialed ordained reverend with a degree in Bible
- 1:41Speaker 1: and theology, a powerful voice in Christian television. Please welcome
- 1:45Speaker 1: Donna Howell. Now I mean it. When you go online,
- 1:55Speaker 1: when you go to your places of employment, I mean,
- 1:58Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I go to church. I'm not joking.
- 2:01Speaker 1: It seems like everywhere I go, I'm seeing Botox, lip injections.
- 2:06Speaker 1: The surgeries are getting younger and younger. Girls in their
- 2:09Speaker 1: 20s trying to be Instagram stars are now having the
- 2:11Speaker 1: bottoms of their eyelids split so they can shorten the
- 2:14Speaker 1: distance between the skin at their eyelid and their cheek
- 2:16Speaker 1: because they're already feeling like their beauty and vanity is
- 2:20Speaker 1: fleeting and they've got to keep up with the trends.
- 2:22Speaker 1: And I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, you know,
- 2:25Speaker 1: this is something much more than just 30 years ago
- 2:29Speaker 1: when I was a kid when people only did things
- 2:31Speaker 1: like cosmetic surgery. They are now wanting to bioengineer themselves.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Let's integrate our bodies with technology. How many of you
- 2:40Speaker 1: remember my father, the late Dr. Thomas Horn? Transhumanism, conversations.
- 2:45Speaker 1: He did this all across the nation. We produced documentaries
- 2:48Speaker 1: on the human enhancement revolution. And if he were alive today,
- 2:52Speaker 1: I think he would marvel at some of the things
- 2:54Speaker 1: that he prophesied would happen, but I think he might
- 2:56Speaker 1: be a little bit surprised at how fast. I think
- 2:59Speaker 1: he was thinking we might have had another decade before
- 3:01Speaker 1: we were well into some of the stuff that you
- 3:04Speaker 1: see taking place now. People aren't satisfied anymore with diet, lifestyle,
- 3:08Speaker 1: putting in the work, putting in the effort. Whatever happened
- 3:11Speaker 1: to the notion of aging gracefully and just letting your
- 3:14Speaker 1: hair be whatever it is, right? Take good care of
- 3:17Speaker 1: your body and look normal or natural, right? People are
- 3:21Speaker 1: doing things called peptide injections. And I want to start there, Jamie,
- 3:26Speaker 1: because it's not just peptide injections. There's a lot of
- 3:28Speaker 1: stuff they're doing to kind of hack themselves, artificially tan themselves. Like, friends,
- 3:34Speaker 1: I'm telling you, there are going to be some consequences
- 3:36Speaker 1: in a few years to us being the experiment on
- 3:38Speaker 1: some of these emergent approaches to trying to retain youth
- 3:42Speaker 1: for longer than is humanly possible without these interventions on
- 3:46Speaker 1: the front side, but some fairly diabolical consequences, I suspect,
- 3:51Speaker 1: that we don't even know about.
- 3:52Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 3:53Speaker 1: I think we are literally finding out we are the
- 3:55Speaker 1: guinea pigs in a lot of this. And I want
- 3:58Speaker 1: to say right at the onset, I am not vehemently
- 4:00Speaker 1: opposed to qualified physician-guided peptide support. These can be used incrementally,
- 4:08Speaker 1: sometimes through a therapeutic season of life to get your,
- 4:11Speaker 1: let's say, metabolism recovered, okay? I myself have done peptides
- 4:16Speaker 1: like sermoralin and thymosin for inflammation, for sleep. I do
- 4:21Speaker 1: not live on them, but I know that I have
- 4:23Speaker 1: good friends that I trust very much that are well
- 4:26Speaker 1: into the daily and for multiple years applications of peptide injections.
- 4:31Speaker 1: I have a dear friend with Sjogren's disease who had
- 4:35Speaker 1: dry eyes and dry mouth for over 20 years, who
- 4:39Speaker 1: now gives credit to peptide therapy as guided by her rheumatologist, right?
- 4:45Speaker 1: This man is an expert in autoimmune condition and remission
- 4:49Speaker 1: of those things. He's also a believer in the Lord
- 4:51Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And his belief is that these things can
- 4:55Speaker 1: be done therapeutically to help put into remission conditions like Sjogren's.
- 5:00Speaker 1: She is doing much better. She's able to produce tears.
- 5:03Speaker 1: She credits these therapies a lot for giving her life back,
- 5:06Speaker 1: her vitality. She was bedridden, you guys. There's a good
- 5:10Speaker 1: friend of mine named Shelly was bedridden. Now she's sending
- 5:13Speaker 1: me pictures of her painting walls and like renovating homes.
- 5:17Speaker 1: And she's also up to speed with the ethical harvesting
- 5:20Speaker 1: of stem cells and the research there. So these are
- 5:24Speaker 1: not aborted babies. When I say ethically harvested stem cells,
- 5:28Speaker 1: these are mothers who have a holistic view of life
- 5:31Speaker 1: that want to help others when their babies have been
- 5:34Speaker 1: born with consent and brought into the world who have
- 5:37Speaker 1: great homes and they've got a life ahead of them.
- 5:39Speaker 1: rather than discard those cells, they're giving them to science
- 5:42Speaker 1: for research or they're donating them to those that need them.
- 5:46Speaker 1: And so we are seeing some very positive. I say
- 5:49Speaker 1: this because I don't want you to immediately assume that
- 5:51Speaker 1: Joe Horn is coming through the lens of all new
- 5:54Speaker 1: emergent science bad.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Right.
- 5:56Speaker 1: Right?
- 5:57Speaker 2: There's a difference.
- 5:58Speaker 1: I'm very open to where these things can be responsibly
- 6:00Speaker 1: investigated for benefit to humanity. And I say that in
- 6:05Speaker 1: part because here's the thing. A lot of what is
- 6:08Speaker 1: happening to us as human beings inherently just being on
- 6:11Speaker 1: the planet right now is happening without our consent in
- 6:14Speaker 1: the opposite direction. So you're being poisoned whether you consented
- 6:17Speaker 1: to it or not. You're breathing things that are in
- 6:20Speaker 1: the environment. You're consuming things in your food that are
- 6:22Speaker 1: already having devastating, diabolical in some cases, metabolic effects on
- 6:27Speaker 1: your health. And I am one of those that believes
- 6:31Speaker 1: it is entirely possible that to keep up with the
- 6:33Speaker 1: scale of damage that's being done to our bodies, God
- 6:36Speaker 1: is introducing aspects of his medicine that we were just
- 6:39Speaker 1: simply scientifically incapable of comprehending before, but now we can.
- 6:43Speaker 1: So as long as it's not changing our genome, as
- 6:46Speaker 1: long as I'm not blending my DNA with some animal
- 6:49Speaker 1: species and I'm no longer human the way God created me,
- 6:53Speaker 1: I don't mind being open to aspects of his emergent science.
- 6:57Speaker 1: If it's not altering me as a human being, but
- 6:59Speaker 1: it instead is supporting my already inherent God-given metabolic process,
- 7:04Speaker 1: but it's fighting back against the fact that I might
- 7:06Speaker 1: have very high aluminum toxicity or some autoimmune condition that
- 7:11Speaker 1: has been worsened by the food that I ate or
- 7:14Speaker 1: consumed for 30 years in ignorance. So with that kind
- 7:17Speaker 1: of setup right out of the gate, I'm not immediately
- 7:21Speaker 1: disparaging all of peptides. Right. As you'll see in this program,
- 7:24Speaker 1: I am going to caution and put up some bumper
- 7:27Speaker 1: rails and perimeters for where I think this should be
- 7:30Speaker 1: done and where it may not be wise. Jamie, for
- 7:33Speaker 1: those that are sitting here going, okay, he said the
- 7:35Speaker 1: word peptide like a hundred times. Is that a pink
- 7:38Speaker 1: capsule that I take for heartburn? What are peptide injections?
- 7:45Speaker 1: And in your opinion, why is this trend now spreading
- 7:48Speaker 1: like wildfire?
- 7:50Speaker 2: Well, a peptide is natural. It is basically a short
- 7:53Speaker 2: chain of amino acids that in our body, they activate
- 7:56Speaker 2: specific pathways. And really what you were saying, it's not
- 8:01Speaker 2: new that people want to improve themselves. I mean, forever
- 8:05Speaker 2: people have been getting enhancements and cheek implants or whatever, surgery,
- 8:10Speaker 2: maybe a nose job.
- 8:11Speaker 1: Liposuction.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Yes. But you know, when I was younger, that was
- 8:15Speaker 2: always for the more wealthy. It wasn't really within reach
- 8:17Speaker 2: for most of us. If we don't like our nose, well,
- 8:20Speaker 2: I probably can't afford to do anything about it. But
- 8:23Speaker 2: things are changing now. We have more access to things,
- 8:26Speaker 2: which is good and bad. So people are now having
- 8:30Speaker 2: access to these peptides. In a vial, you use a
- 8:35Speaker 2: syringe to administer it subcutaneously mostly. And they're using them
- 8:41Speaker 2: to enhance certain or activate certain pathways to maybe maximize
- 8:47Speaker 2: their looks, make them look better. So let me give
- 8:50Speaker 2: you some examples because a lot of people may be like, well,
- 8:52Speaker 2: what even is a peptide? What is this? Now, these
- 8:55Speaker 2: are just a few of the really popular ones. You
- 8:57Speaker 2: may have heard these mentioned on social media like TikTok.
- 9:01Speaker 2: There is one called BPC-157, that one is extremely popular.
- 9:06Speaker 2: This one is used for tissue repair, cellular regeneration. People
- 9:11Speaker 2: might use them for anti-aging efforts.
- 9:13Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say anti-aging.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Yes, yeah. There's another one, CJC1295. This one stimulates the
- 9:19Speaker 2: growth hormone. Another famous one is GHKCU. This is used
- 9:25Speaker 2: by a lot of women for hair and nails to
- 9:27Speaker 2: help them grow and to look more healthy. And then
- 9:30Speaker 2: there's another one, and this is actually a synthetic peptide
- 9:33Speaker 2: that is hitting mainstream, and it is called melanotan. Now,
- 9:37Speaker 2: this is something that they use to increase... the pigment
- 9:41Speaker 2: in the skin to make them look more tan, give
- 9:43Speaker 2: them a darker appearance. So peptides aren't new because people
- 9:47Speaker 2: have been injecting insulin for decades and that's a peptide,
- 9:51Speaker 2: that's a hormone peptide. Also the collagen that I put
- 9:54Speaker 2: in my coffee every day, that is also a peptide.
- 9:57Speaker 2: So these aren't inherently new or evil, They are, for
- 10:01Speaker 2: the most part, other than the synthetic ones, they are natural.
- 10:04Speaker 2: But the issue is, what are we using them for?
- 10:08Speaker 2: Where are we sourcing them from?
- 10:10Speaker 1: That's huge.
- 10:11Speaker 2: What route? Are we taking it? Are we ingesting it?
- 10:14Speaker 2: Are we putting it, which is not natural, to inject
- 10:17Speaker 2: them into your body? And what is the data on this?
- 10:20Speaker 2: This is taken over. It's all over TikTok. And this
- 10:23Speaker 2: is a lot of the younger generation that do spend
- 10:25Speaker 2: a lot more time on social media. So these are
- 10:27Speaker 2: being promoted through influencers. And it is often the influencers
- 10:30Speaker 2: that are selling them or telling you where to go
- 10:34Speaker 2: to get them. So they are often getting some type
- 10:36Speaker 2: of monetary benefit.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Compensation or kickback.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Compensation, yeah, for promoting these.
- 10:41Speaker 1: And just for clarity, if you're watching the show, yes,
- 10:43Speaker 1: what Jamie is describing is not you go see your
- 10:46Speaker 1: physician or your naturopath of choice and they do something
- 10:49Speaker 1: therapeutic for a duration that they deem is good for
- 10:52Speaker 1: your body based on your bio-individuality. You're talking about whole cloth,
- 10:56Speaker 1: order on some dot-com and then self-administer at home, right?
- 11:00Speaker 1: And how many people out there have heard the old, well,
- 11:02Speaker 1: more is good, so even more than that must be better, right? Like,
- 11:06Speaker 1: we have no way of knowing. right?
- 11:08Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:08Speaker 1: What the data in a few years is going to
- 11:10Speaker 1: bear out when you're introducing human growth hormones to your body.
- 11:15Speaker 1: And maybe the sourcing is not crisp. Let's say there
- 11:18Speaker 1: are biocontaminants and then you're self-administering because you want that
- 11:22Speaker 1: extra bump. I see this as potentially disastrous.
- 11:27Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:27Speaker 1: Because we don't know. Again, we are the experiment. I'm
- 11:30Speaker 1: not doing this, but the people that are doing it.
- 11:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:32Speaker 1: And the social pressure has to be a driver for this.
- 11:35Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
- 11:36Speaker 1: People with their filters, I don't even know that you're
- 11:38Speaker 1: looking at their actual face. How many of these people
- 11:41Speaker 1: are using beauty filters and then selling you a peptide
- 11:43Speaker 1: to make you look younger? Anyway, go ahead.
- 11:46Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not here to discuss if these are
- 11:48Speaker 2: effective or not. Peptides are a natural substance. and they
- 11:52Speaker 2: do activate certain pathways, which is why we have to
- 11:56Speaker 2: be incredibly careful. This is insurmountable. The amount of consequences
- 12:02Speaker 2: that could come from this if it is not managed
- 12:05Speaker 2: correctly dosed correctly, administered correctly. And there are so many
- 12:10Speaker 2: variables that you can't always account for. There are some
- 12:13Speaker 2: side effects, mostly minor, some injection site, discomfort reaction, a
- 12:19Speaker 2: little bit of pain, maybe an infection, worst case for
- 12:22Speaker 2: the injection site.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Of the ones that people are reporting so far.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 12:26Speaker 1: But this is like literally over the last 12 months,
- 12:29Speaker 1: like a craze. Yeah. I mean, we've gone from, I'm
- 12:32Speaker 1: serious and I'm in health. So I've gone from hearing
- 12:36Speaker 1: the rumors of their emergence in therapeutic dosing to now TikTok.
- 12:40Speaker 1: You can order them online.
- 12:41Speaker 2: Yes, right. So the reason that this is so concerning
- 12:44Speaker 2: is because some of these that stimulate cell growth, which
- 12:48Speaker 2: when you think in a therapeutic environment under the guidance
- 12:52Speaker 2: of a physician, maybe this could be helpful, but there
- 12:54Speaker 2: are unknowns.
- 12:55Speaker 1: There are too.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Many unknowns and there's no long-term science to this. There's
- 13:02Speaker 2: not a lot of long-term studies of any of this.
- 13:05Speaker 2: And so I think it is very practical to step
- 13:09Speaker 2: back and think, well, How many times do we have
- 13:12Speaker 2: mutated cells that our body is getting rid of? Our
- 13:15Speaker 2: immune system's working and it's getting rid of it. But
- 13:17Speaker 2: what if you have, now this is just hypothetical because
- 13:21Speaker 2: we don't know, what if you are taking these that
- 13:24Speaker 2: are supposed to stimulate cell growth and you happen to
- 13:27Speaker 2: have maybe a small tumor or a little clump of
- 13:31Speaker 2: tumor cells? What is there to regulate that? and make
- 13:34Speaker 2: it so that that does not grow because cancer cells
- 13:38Speaker 2: already inherently, what makes them cancer cells and makes them
- 13:41Speaker 2: so dangerous is that they have this unlimited ability to
- 13:45Speaker 2: replicate and avoid the immune system and avoid cell death,
- 13:49Speaker 2: which is apoptosis that is supposed to happen naturally with
- 13:53Speaker 2: a healthy human being. If you are artificially stimulating your
- 13:56Speaker 2: body to grow cells, We don't know the consequences. And
- 14:01Speaker 2: another attribute to cancer is that it has the ability
- 14:03Speaker 2: to form blood vessels to feed itself. And if you're
- 14:06Speaker 2: taking something that already stimulates that, it just could be
- 14:10Speaker 2: dangerous and we need to be very, very careful because
- 14:12Speaker 2: of the unknowns.
- 14:13Speaker 1: And of course, the manufacturers will tell you that they've
- 14:15Speaker 1: established these perimeters and their stuff is likely FDA approved.
- 14:22Speaker 1: I'm not here to litigate whether or not these companies
- 14:25Speaker 1: have any science at all that could even point at it. No, no, no, no, no.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Those outcomes are not quantifiable. There's no pathology that says
- 14:32Speaker 1: that this does that thing that you're worried about. But
- 14:35Speaker 1: you don't need for them to admit that this is
- 14:37Speaker 1: a possibility for me to go, no, I think this
- 14:39Speaker 1: is a possibility. And we're tinkering with people's bio-individuality. So
- 14:43Speaker 1: you could have 50 people in a room and maybe
- 14:45Speaker 1: some of them are the ones that have this bent
- 14:48Speaker 1: toward their body And I'll give you an example. So
- 14:51Speaker 1: maybe there's a reason their body's already not producing a
- 14:54Speaker 1: certain cell type because its bio-individuality was designed by God
- 14:59Speaker 1: and in that human in order to keep their personal
- 15:01Speaker 1: immune system in balance and in check from those malevolent things.
- 15:04Speaker 1: It's purposefully withholding, based on the pH balance of your
- 15:07Speaker 1: body or its own chemistry, it's purposely withholding the very
- 15:11Speaker 1: thing that you're wanting to see take place. And now
- 15:13Speaker 1: you're artificially mandating by decree that your body just cope
- 15:17Speaker 1: with this human growth peptide Yeah. Because you want a
- 15:22Speaker 1: certain outcome. I feel sorry for the people that are
- 15:25Speaker 1: doing this for vain reasons. I think we've lost our minds.
- 15:27Speaker 1: I just think that normal people, you know, we're losing
- 15:31Speaker 1: what is normal. So what would my reaction to that be?
- 15:35Speaker 1: Bolster the immune system, try to get better sleep. Let's
- 15:38Speaker 1: take nutrition that gives me vitamin B that I can
- 15:41Speaker 1: methylate as a person with MTHFR. And then hydration. I'm
- 15:45Speaker 1: a humongous proponent of hydrating with salt and things like magnesium, potassium,
- 15:50Speaker 1: so that your body can actually receive hydration. People with Sjogren's,
- 15:55Speaker 1: if you're listening, likely drinking distilled water is not doing
- 15:58Speaker 1: a lot for you. You probably should hydrate with things
- 16:01Speaker 1: like salt, something to ask your physician about. But the
- 16:03Speaker 1: point is, I feel that it's unnatural to go to
- 16:08Speaker 1: these extremes, not just financially, but because of the unknowns.
- 16:12Speaker 1: I would be very uncomfortable if one of my teenage
- 16:15Speaker 1: daughters said, hey, daddy, can I ask you about peptide injections?
- 16:19Speaker 1: I feel like I need to keep up with the trends.
- 16:21Speaker 1: I'd be saying, not just no, but absolutely no.
- 16:24Speaker 2: Never.
- 16:26Speaker 1: Let's dig into that, though. But why are you feeling
- 16:29Speaker 1: inept or inadequate or behind culture? What is that about?
- 16:33Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Otherwise, where does this end?
- 16:35Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't want my kids to either. There's no data.
- 16:38Speaker 2: You can't find a lot of data on some of
- 16:40Speaker 2: the more serious side effects. But what you can find,
- 16:44Speaker 2: and this is maybe one of the silver linings to
- 16:46Speaker 2: social media, is people are getting on there and they
- 16:48Speaker 2: are talking about their experiences. A lot of them positive.
- 16:51Speaker 2: You know, I wanted to take this for hair and
- 16:53Speaker 2: nails and oh, look, I'm so pretty. But you will
- 16:55Speaker 2: also find people who were like, I went to the hospital.
- 16:59Speaker 2: I almost died. I had headaches every day. So people
- 17:02Speaker 2: are having negative, adverse side effects to these. In fact,
- 17:07Speaker 2: some people have even gone to the hospital with anaphylaxis. Now,
- 17:12Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're having anaphylaxis to a peptide, especially
- 17:14Speaker 2: if it's a natural peptide. That's probably unlikely. But the sourcing,
- 17:18Speaker 2: what's in these vials, as you mentioned earlier, if these
- 17:22Speaker 2: are so widespread, and to make them affordable for the
- 17:25Speaker 2: majority of the population... Where are they getting them? Some
- 17:28Speaker 2: of them are coming from China. And I'm not saying
- 17:30Speaker 2: everything from China is bad. What I'm saying is there's
- 17:32Speaker 2: a lot of unregulated sources. And so they could be
- 17:36Speaker 2: having these hyperreactions to what's in the vial. Some of
- 17:39Speaker 2: the vials, when they have been looked at, don't contain
- 17:42Speaker 2: the amount of that peptide that they're advertised to have.
- 17:45Speaker 2: Some have none. Some have the contaminants in there. There
- 17:48Speaker 2: are so many unknowns. And then you don't know how
- 17:50Speaker 2: your body is going to react to artificially injecting this
- 17:54Speaker 2: excessive amount of peptide that your body maybe would not
- 17:57Speaker 2: normally be making.
- 17:58Speaker 1: Well, and then cocktails. So people are taking three, four,
- 18:01Speaker 1: five of these different ones for different things. Stacking. Oh, no.
- 18:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 18:06Speaker 1: So very quickly, I'm going to tell you something super funny,
- 18:08Speaker 1: and then I'm going to get my next question for Jamie,
- 18:10Speaker 1: but I got to share this. As you were talking
- 18:12Speaker 1: about feeling better, one of my favorite friends, and he
- 18:15Speaker 1: is so smart, and he's an intellectual tower of a human,
- 18:20Speaker 1: but his name is Dr. Ralph Umbriaco. He's been on
- 18:22Speaker 1: this program. He He sat in this studio and talked
- 18:25Speaker 1: with us about kinesiology and muscle testing. But I was
- 18:28Speaker 1: talking to him one time about how so many people
- 18:30Speaker 1: are flocking to gimmicks that make them feel better. And
- 18:33Speaker 1: some of this even affects the supplement market. These things
- 18:36Speaker 1: are being gimmicked to sell more units and they'll give
- 18:38Speaker 1: you a bump of something. They're like the underlying component
- 18:42Speaker 1: to the supplement is caffeine. And I'm not saying caffeine
- 18:45Speaker 1: is evil, but there's a reason that you feel kind
- 18:47Speaker 1: of like you have more energy that day. But what's
- 18:50Speaker 1: that doing to your adrenals? Is it supporting it? Are
- 18:52Speaker 1: you doing it too much? Are you taking too much?
- 18:54Speaker 1: Are you getting too much caffeine? Is that dehydrating you,
- 18:56Speaker 1: et cetera? The list goes on and on. And Dr.
- 18:57Speaker 1: Ralph said something hilarious. He said, I'm going to bust
- 19:01Speaker 1: up right here. He goes, well, if you just want
- 19:03Speaker 1: to feel better, cocaine is very good at that. Now,
- 19:08Speaker 1: in context, he was not suggesting that anyone start doing cocaine. Right, yes.
- 19:13Speaker 1: He was pointing out the irony in people chasing the
- 19:15Speaker 1: pursuit of feeling better temporarily at the expense of their
- 19:19Speaker 1: long-term health. Right. Because he followed that by saying, but
- 19:23Speaker 1: obviously we already know that cocaine leads to very rapid death.
- 19:27Speaker 1: And for the people that don't die right away, they
- 19:28Speaker 1: have paranoia, losing their teeth, their hair, their things, their bag,
- 19:32Speaker 1: the eyes. It's a life destroyer.
- 19:36Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 19:36Speaker 1: But his point, though he jest, his point was that
- 19:40Speaker 1: if you were just pursuing feeling good for a minute,
- 19:43Speaker 1: there are illegal ways to do that real fast. Anyway.
- 19:45Speaker 2: Well, I think all of this leads to a bigger conversation.
- 19:48Speaker 2: And now I'm not talking about people who are taking
- 19:50Speaker 2: it to try to get healthy. I'm talking about a
- 19:52Speaker 2: presumably healthy body taking this to enhance something. Now, there's
- 19:58Speaker 2: another trend I want to briefly mention because this is
- 20:01Speaker 2: also all over social media. And if you haven't seen it,
- 20:03Speaker 2: you might have a kid or grandkid who has seen it.
- 20:06Speaker 2: And this is called looks maxing. Now this is just
- 20:10Speaker 2: a relabeling of something women might call a glow up.
- 20:13Speaker 2: This is mostly the younger male demographic and it can
- 20:17Speaker 2: be soft maxing, which is just, you got a haircut,
- 20:21Speaker 2: maybe you changed your style. very subtle things where you're
- 20:25Speaker 2: just taking care of yourself to improve your looks. Then
- 20:27Speaker 2: you kind of have your medium range maxing and that
- 20:31Speaker 2: is where you're taking peptides to give yourself a tan
- 20:34Speaker 2: or you're taking testosterone. Maybe even Botox would fit into
- 20:38Speaker 2: that category. But the one that Really, it started as
- 20:42Speaker 2: a joke, but influencers are now kind of promoting this,
- 20:46Speaker 2: and that is hard maxing and often involves bone smashing.
- 20:52Speaker 2: Has anybody heard of bone smashing?
- 20:54Speaker 1: No.
- 20:56Speaker 2: It is men are trying to seek that chiseled jaw
- 20:59Speaker 2: line and they are punching themselves in the chin or
- 21:03Speaker 2: they're taking things. And the idea behind it, which is
- 21:07Speaker 2: completely misled, is that if you damage it, you know,
- 21:11Speaker 2: the swelling might make it a little more pronounced, but also.
- 21:14Speaker 2: In hopes that maybe your face would heal in a
- 21:17Speaker 2: restructuring way. Now, there is no evidence for that whatsoever.
- 21:21Speaker 2: That is not a thing. But you know how social
- 21:23Speaker 2: media is. People see things and they go with it
- 21:26Speaker 2: and they go try it. So some of these things
- 21:29Speaker 2: are really harmful. Now there's biohacking, people seeking longevity. Now
- 21:35Speaker 2: these circles, they go a little bit deeper into enhancement.
- 21:38Speaker 2: They want to use stem cells or gene-based approaches to
- 21:42Speaker 2: help them artificially through natural means, air quotes, live longer.
- 21:47Speaker 2: And the problem is people are seeking risky, unproven things.
- 21:53Speaker 2: to achieve something outside of maybe their biological norm. Now,
- 21:58Speaker 2: I'm not talking about people who are sick and they're
- 22:01Speaker 2: trying to use stem cell therapy or something to become healthy.
- 22:06Speaker 2: What I'm talking about are people who are trying to
- 22:10Speaker 2: enhance their bodies beyond what is normal for their biology
- 22:14Speaker 2: through using some very risky therapies.
- 22:18Speaker 3: Right, right, right.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the person watching the show may be saying
- 22:21Speaker 1: to themselves, okay, but who gets to decide normal and
- 22:24Speaker 1: what is normal? So I would describe that, and this
- 22:28Speaker 1: can be my opinion and you can disagree with this,
- 22:30Speaker 1: but I would describe normal as whatever it is that
- 22:32Speaker 1: God inherently engineered you to be when he gave you life.
- 22:36Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
- 22:37Speaker 1: With permission, with permission. Because he does allow a lot
- 22:41Speaker 1: of difficulty. I have been in my life, MTHFR, autoimmunity,
- 22:46Speaker 1: I have struggled. Now, we're not going to get into
- 22:48Speaker 1: all of that today. Did God curse me with genetics
- 22:52Speaker 1: when he could have made me robust? Like Jamie's husband,
- 22:55Speaker 1: Big John, right? Maybe I should have got his genes.
- 22:58Speaker 1: I'm jealous, right? I could stand to look a little
- 23:02Speaker 1: more like Big John too, by the way. We'll bring
- 23:04Speaker 1: up a picture of Big John so you know what
- 23:06Speaker 1: I'm talking about. That's right, Jamie Woodle. We're bringing up
- 23:08Speaker 1: Big John. Am I living under a curse that my
- 23:13Speaker 1: genetics maybe disadvantaged me in comparison to my neighbor? Well,
- 23:18Speaker 1: this is a very long unpack. I have found it
- 23:22Speaker 1: unfortunate that I have had to work at times as
- 23:25Speaker 1: hard as I have with the shell pack that God
- 23:28Speaker 1: offered me. when he designed me in my mother's womb
- 23:31Speaker 1: in that I have had to work very, very hard.
- 23:33Speaker 1: And I don't say this to beg for more lessons
- 23:36Speaker 1: in humility. I just say out loud, I am not
- 23:38Speaker 1: the same human being that I would have been if
- 23:41Speaker 1: life for me had been a lot easier. I, for example,
- 23:45Speaker 1: in my early age, wanted to be an MMA fighter.
- 23:48Speaker 1: And I had all these wild ideas of things I
- 23:49Speaker 1: want to do, bing, bing, bing. I would never become
- 23:52Speaker 1: a child advocate without some of those setbacks that made
- 23:55Speaker 1: me slow down for a minute and learn. And now,
- 23:58Speaker 1: I'm a board-certified holistic health practitioner, so I've learned a ton,
- 24:02Speaker 1: but I want to continue that education. I would have
- 24:04Speaker 1: no interest. My mom is sitting here today. Mom, at
- 24:07Speaker 1: age 10, would I have had any interest whatsoever in
- 24:11Speaker 1: helping others with their metabolic health if I had ended
- 24:14Speaker 1: up as a cage fighter? I would not be empathetic.
- 24:16Speaker 1: I would not care at all. So God has allowed
- 24:19Speaker 1: me to live out my bio-individuality. We're not talking about
- 24:24Speaker 1: restoring health. We're talking about inherently healthy people trying to
- 24:29Speaker 1: keep up with cosmetic trends at the potential hazard of
- 24:33Speaker 1: their own future selves that might someday in a decade
- 24:35Speaker 1: from now, look back and go, somebody somewhere should have said,
- 24:38Speaker 1: put these dumb things down. Well, ladies and gentlemen, before
- 24:41Speaker 1: we go any further, if you're trying to take control
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- 26:00Speaker 1: 15% on your next order. So anyway, before we run
- 26:03Speaker 1: out of time, though, why are people afraid of normal? Seriously,
- 26:07Speaker 1: why are people afraid of normal aging, wrinkles, body fat,
- 26:11Speaker 1: normal amounts of body fat, you know, human limitations?
- 26:15Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 26:15Speaker 2: Well, and you know, there's nothing wrong with wanting to
- 26:19Speaker 2: be your healthiest, most attractive self. There's nothing wrong with
- 26:22Speaker 2: wanting to live a long, full life. I think a
- 26:25Speaker 2: lot of this has really come from social media. Like
- 26:28Speaker 2: it used to be the movies, you'd have these beautiful
- 26:30Speaker 2: movie stars and, oh, I want to look like her. Well,
- 26:32Speaker 2: now it's appears to be the common person on social media,
- 26:36Speaker 2: just all of a sudden is looks maxing or glowing
- 26:39Speaker 2: up or looking absolutely beautiful and not always just from
- 26:42Speaker 2: exercise and healthy diet. They're getting other help. And so
- 26:46Speaker 2: my caution is twofold. One is we keep moving the
- 26:50Speaker 2: goalpost of perfection. Where's the line? Where's the line going
- 26:55Speaker 2: to end?
- 26:55Speaker 1: There isn't one right now. Exactly. Right.
- 26:57Speaker 2: So where do we... We're going from optimizing health in
- 27:02Speaker 2: our bodies to maybe moving into redesigning it.
- 27:07Speaker 1: That's right.
- 27:07Speaker 2: So how far are we going to go? Are we
- 27:10Speaker 2: going to go all the way into transcending natural limitations?
- 27:15Speaker 2: Now that gets us into transhumanism.
- 27:17Speaker 1: Well, that's the goal right now.
- 27:18Speaker 2: The goalpost keeps moving. And it seems like, with caution,
- 27:22Speaker 2: could this be, Christians, we need to use our discernment
- 27:26Speaker 2: Is this normalizing it? Is it the first stepping stone,
- 27:30Speaker 2: or maybe the third, into accepting more transhumanistic approaches to
- 27:35Speaker 2: enhancing our bodies?
- 27:37Speaker 1: I think for sure. And Donna, you can weigh in
- 27:38Speaker 1: on this. We're just about out of time, but we
- 27:41Speaker 1: did a film on this over a decade ago called Inhuman.
- 27:43Speaker 1: It's so long, it had to take place on two DVDs,
- 27:46Speaker 1: if you can remember a DVD player. Derek Gilbert, Sharon Gilbert,
- 27:51Speaker 1: of course, once again, my father, Thomas Horne, Dr. Thomas
- 27:54Speaker 1: Horne was in the film. I had a brief stint
- 27:57Speaker 1: in the film talking about human genome and prion contamination.
- 28:00Speaker 1: But yes, I believe that all of this glowing up
- 28:04Speaker 1: and this over glamorization and a culture that's constantly being
- 28:08Speaker 1: told that being a human being isn't enough anymore.
- 28:12Speaker 2: Right.
- 28:12Speaker 1: That all of the things we talked about from human enhancement,
- 28:15Speaker 1: the need to keep up to integrate with technology, we're
- 28:19Speaker 1: already enhanced. If you have a cell phone, you've already enhanced. Right.
- 28:22Speaker 1: 30 years ago, you would never have been able to
- 28:25Speaker 1: keep up in terms of your calendar, your workload, all
- 28:27Speaker 1: the things you had to schedule. Bing, there's an email
- 28:29Speaker 1: corresponding with a guy in France in one second. Now
- 28:31Speaker 1: we're back. The pace at which our brains are doing
- 28:34Speaker 1: like this wouldn't have been possible back when you had
- 28:36Speaker 1: to read things on paper and send somebody a handwritten letter.
- 28:39Speaker 1: So the idea of enhancing ourselves, to me, I just
- 28:43Speaker 1: see it as eventual. It's inevitable. It's inevitable. And again,
- 28:48Speaker 1: we don't have time today to get into the apocalyptic
- 28:50Speaker 1: scenarios that then bring in the rise of the beast
- 28:53Speaker 1: system or Christ's necessary return to save us from ourselves.
- 28:57Speaker 1: But Donna, a culture that's constantly being told that normal
- 29:00Speaker 1: isn't good enough, human isn't good enough, don't you see
- 29:02Speaker 1: all of these, not even as the initial steps, and
- 29:06Speaker 1: they're getting better with technology at hybridizing cells. I think
- 29:11Speaker 1: if the Lord tarries, we will see in our lifetimes
- 29:15Speaker 1: people that are beginning to have things literally implanted into
- 29:18Speaker 1: their body that is supposed to be a neural network
- 29:21Speaker 1: connection with the human brain, so that when your brain
- 29:24Speaker 1: is tired and it's done its automatic processes, this other
- 29:27Speaker 1: device kicks in and it tells the cells to do this.
- 29:30Speaker 1: And perhaps nanobot technology is working on your behalf to
- 29:34Speaker 1: make sure this, make sure that, irreversibly inhuman. Do you agree?
- 29:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 29:38Speaker 3: And you know, while you're sitting there talking about, you know,
- 29:41Speaker 3: this chip that takes care of the brain when it's
- 29:43Speaker 3: tired or whatever, I immediately go to neuroprosthetics. I mean,
- 29:46Speaker 3: there's the narrative that these things are very good and
- 29:50Speaker 3: there are parts of that narrative that are true. I mean,
- 29:52Speaker 3: if a person goes and they join a war and
- 29:54Speaker 3: they are a good soldier and they lose their leg
- 29:56Speaker 3: in battle, now there's a neuroprosthetic. No longer is it
- 29:59Speaker 3: a wooden leg that goes clunk, step, clunk, step. It's
- 30:03Speaker 3: literally a prosthetic that communicates neurologically with the human brain
- 30:07Speaker 3: and it responds through digital processing, through your biology that
- 30:12Speaker 3: tells this leg what to do. We're there.
- 30:14Speaker 2: That's old news.
- 30:15Speaker 1: And I love that technology for that man. It is
- 30:17Speaker 1: not evil. I love that he has a better leg.
- 30:19Speaker 1: But that leg is not fundamentally rewriting his human genome
- 30:23Speaker 1: and changing him. That's the difference. We're not talking about
- 30:26Speaker 1: therapeutic uses for somebody that lost a limb. We're talking
- 30:29Speaker 1: about saying, I'm healthy, I'm normal, but it's not good
- 30:31Speaker 1: enough anymore. And in order to keep up with everybody else,
- 30:34Speaker 1: I'm going to have to enhance or fall irreparably behind.
- 30:37Speaker 2: No, no, no.
- 30:38Speaker 3: But the exact same narrative, the people will come forward saying, look,
- 30:42Speaker 3: we've had neuroprosthetics. We're already desensitized to what the dangers
- 30:46Speaker 3: could be. Now we're going to do this to enhance whatever.
- 30:49Speaker 1: That's the new normal.
- 30:50Speaker 3: Yeah. So the idea that there was something good that
- 30:54Speaker 3: launched this kind of technology is the exact same reason
- 30:57Speaker 3: why it will be used for nefarious reasons later.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Right, always.
- 31:00Speaker 3: One of the things that was really, really clicking when
- 31:03Speaker 3: you guys were talking is I was sitting here and
- 31:04Speaker 3: I could not let go of what you said earlier
- 31:06Speaker 3: when you said, When I was a kid, I mean,
- 31:09Speaker 3: it was a rich and famous thing that you would
- 31:10Speaker 3: go get rhinoplasty or facelift or whatever. You just didn't
- 31:14Speaker 3: do that if you were one of the normal lowly
- 31:16Speaker 3: folks who aren't living full time in LA or Hollywood
- 31:19Speaker 3: or whatever. One of the things that has got me
- 31:22Speaker 3: going this whole episode is the fact that Snapchat filters,
- 31:27Speaker 3: TikTok filters, there's filters on everything you see digitally. And
- 31:31Speaker 3: then everybody in their actual body is getting everything, fillers, Botox, whatever,
- 31:36Speaker 3: The norm, as it would have been recognized in 1980,
- 31:39Speaker 3: was she has a big nose, but guess what? You
- 31:42Speaker 3: would have never even seen it. you would have been
- 31:45Speaker 3: oblivious to the idea that this girl's nose isn't perfect.
- 31:48Speaker 3: You didn't even see the physical flaws because everybody collectively
- 31:52Speaker 3: and universally had physical flaws, small as they may be,
- 31:55Speaker 3: large as they may be.
- 31:56Speaker 1: You're right.
- 31:56Speaker 2: But we got used to it.
- 31:58Speaker 3: Now, because of what we are seeing online.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Copy paste, cookie cutter beauty.
- 32:02Speaker 3: We're swiping everything. Now, the norm in our mind, we
- 32:07Speaker 3: look in the mirror and it's like, I can't even
- 32:09Speaker 3: leave the house because of this nose or this hair
- 32:12Speaker 3: or those whatever. So the norm has quite literally, whether
- 32:17Speaker 3: we like it or not, been injected into our brains,
- 32:20Speaker 3: into our eyes, into our vision every single day.
- 32:22Speaker 2: That is part of what I see.
- 32:24Speaker 3: And so those people who want a human community, who
- 32:27Speaker 3: are willing to kind of unplug from all this digitech world,
- 32:31Speaker 3: Those are going to be the people that, again, once
- 32:33Speaker 3: upon a time, just like before, they don't see the flaw.
- 32:36Speaker 3: It's human community, right?
- 32:37Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. So what do we do when the world
- 32:40Speaker 2: is desensitizing us in these minute collective ways? Well, we
- 32:44Speaker 2: go to the word of God. In Genesis 1, 27
- 32:48Speaker 2: and verse 31, so God created mankind in his own image.
- 32:52Speaker 2: In the image of God, he created them. And verse
- 32:54Speaker 2: 31 is God saw all that he made and it
- 32:57Speaker 2: was good. So we're not saying don't strive for health.
- 33:01Speaker 2: I mean, by all means, please work on your gut health,
- 33:05Speaker 2: be healthy, exercise, try to live a long life. God
- 33:10Speaker 2: wants us to have a high quality life and a
- 33:12Speaker 2: relationship with him as well. We have to not be
- 33:14Speaker 2: desensitized by the world. So also in 1 Samuel 16, 7,'
- 33:19Speaker 2: For the Lord sees not as man sees. Man looks
- 33:23Speaker 2: on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.'
- 33:27Speaker 2: We have to ground ourselves in the word of God
- 33:30Speaker 2: because the world leads us astray and makes you think
- 33:33Speaker 2: you're not good enough, but you are. God's more concerned
- 33:37Speaker 2: about what is in your heart than he is about
- 33:40Speaker 2: if your nose is perfect or if you're the perfect weight.
- 33:44Speaker 2: We have to focus on what does God say about us?
- 33:47Speaker 2: It matters more about what he thinks. So we as
- 33:51Speaker 2: Christians have to ask ourselves when we are considering these risky,
- 33:56Speaker 2: unproven therapies that might, air quote, enhance our bodies. Are
- 34:01Speaker 2: we choosing to do this to glorify God or are
- 34:05Speaker 2: we trying to glorify ourselves?
- 34:12Speaker 1: I think that was a very sober place to end
- 34:14Speaker 1: this conversation today. I certainly don't want to have to
- 34:17Speaker 1: follow that. Unfortunately, we're all out of time. I hope
- 34:20Speaker 1: you guys learned something today. I hope this ministered to
- 34:22Speaker 1: your heart. If you're watching this program and maybe you've
- 34:26Speaker 1: been grappling with, I'm not good enough, I've gotta enhance,
- 34:28Speaker 1: I've gotta pursue what my friends at school and the
- 34:31Speaker 1: high school kids, and oh my word, I gotta chase
- 34:33Speaker 1: the lips and the eyes and the ears. If anything else,
- 34:35Speaker 1: look at Joe Horn's ugly mug for inspiration. Nobody wants
- 34:40Speaker 1: to clap at me self-deprecating. You can secretly take inspiration
- 34:46Speaker 1: from this. I will not make judgments. For everybody here
- 34:49Speaker 1: in studio, Jamie, Donna, thank you so much for joining
- 34:52Speaker 1: me again right here at Life TV Now. Keep your
- 34:54Speaker 1: eyes on the prize, which is Jesus Christ. We'll be back.
- 35:10Speaker 2: Thank you.