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Podcast 488: Mental Health Warrior

We are very excited to introduce Bruce Schutter to share his transformative journey through the depths of mental health challenges—bipolar disorder, anxiety, and alcoholism, which in turn led him to create the  ‘Mental Health Warrior Program.’  This program focuses on mindset, emotional and lifestyle adjustments such as nutrition and exercise, advocating for emotional empowerment rather than reliance on medication. Bruce, alongside Martin Pytela, emphasizes the strong link between mental and physical health, offering listeners the ‘warrior tools’ they need to regain control of their well-being. We hope this podcast connects with those facing challenges or anyone who knows someone in need of support

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MARTIN: Greetings. This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast podcast. And with me today is Bruce Schutter. And we’re introducing Bruce because he is the mental health warrior and he is helping people get back on the track. Bruce, welcome to the show.

BRUCE: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

MARTIN: Oh, pleasure. As usual, it’s the story of the fallen hero who overcomes, right?

BRUCE: Yes, it is. Yes. And I certainly have the story of the fall. But then the mental warrior program or taking care of our mental health is the journey upwards.

MARTIN: Well, that’s the whole point, right? 

BRUCE: Exactly.

MARTIN: My story is not that different. Mine was more about physical health, but take a pick. Right?

BRUCE: Yep. No, no, but I was going to second it. As your mental health deteriorates, your physical health, your choices on foods and exercise, of course, all fall off the map. And so my physical health was no better than my mental health.

MARTIN: Right. Well, and it’s tied. Right. Like, you would hear me talk about nutrition and how what you put into your body will truly control your physiology. And so, it’s sometimes hard to know where the chicken or the egg is or the horse and the cart. What was the primal mover here? Was it the nutrition or was it something, some dysregulation in the body itself?

BRUCE: Correct. Right. And then you have, as I found, you have your mental health challenges. But alongside of, like we said, the nutrition, poor eating, I’m starting to have physical health problems, which certainly didn’t help my body working well. So kind of, in my mind, made the mental health problems even worse as my blood pressure skyrocketed, cholesterol, all sorts of additional things the doctors are trying to help you with. And it’s just, like you said, one giant connection and a big ball of problems going down the hill fast.

MARTIN: Okay, well, maybe just to give the listener a bit of an overview, explain why you have the authority on what you’re teaching people now. 

BRUCE: Sure. Yeah, we did kind of jump into it there. So it started out when I was in high school, and I knew there were some challenges. I knew some things were different. I only seemed to know the emotional ends of the spectrum. I was always really very motivated or that manic type side or a complete depression. I was filled with anxiety all the time, but over the top that it would stop me from doing things. Walking in a room with friends, even was anxiety filled, which nobody else seemed to have. And as I went along, I’m still doing things. But you’re trying to figure out there’s no information out there, what’s going wrong, what’s happening, and along the way I’m doing life things. So while I was in high school, I joined and became a rescue squad, a local tech, and then became an emergency medical technician. So I’m going out on calls. I like to say at this point, I’m jumping into life’s deep end into the pool, and I’m not even prepared to handle where I’m at in high school.

MARTIN: Yeah, this is, this is really interesting because you’re exposing yourself to essentially PTSD material.

BRUCE: Exactly.

MARTIN: While you’re totally not ready to handle that. Right?

BRUCE: Right. And the thing was, most people that I worked with, and it was a volunteer, and we had all sorts of accidents, calls, all the situations that were horrible that were trying to help people through or save their lives, literally, and nobody really knew what to do about it. It wasn’t even just tied to my age or just me. So that kind of added where people really didn’t know how to process emotions nobody talked about, because this was years ago. And so, like you said, it was kind of that perfect storm starting. And my challenges just kept growing, not even knowing I had them, not knowing I was diagnosed bipolar. And I turned to ways to use short term solutions, so I turned to alcohol as a way to tamp down the feelings or just not deal with them, I like to call it.

BRUCE: I was trying to do anything I could to avoid my emotions. And sometimes, I mean, I was doing a million things, because if you keep busy, you can also avoid emotions. So this went along.

MARTIN: These words are really interesting. Right? Like, you have people called alcoholics and workaholics and sexaholics and whatever “holics”. Which, of course, it’s just is a play on words, but, yeah, distraction, right?

BRUCE: Yes, exactly. And again, it’s all even the mental health challenges are centered on emotions, and when you don’t know how to handle them. I didn’t even know how to handle the anxiety or ways to do that. I’m looking for short term ways, basically just to get through the day, get through that situation, which is not managing it, not being able to enjoy life. And that went along. I went to college, whole challenge of things. Like you said, I’m learning from high school now to college, then out into the workforce. And along the way, it’s like I see a little line of my challenges creeping up as they’re taking over more and more of my life and more of my decisions. And by the time I got out in the workforce, it’s like I described it to a lot of people. The surface picture looked great. You go out, you graduate college, you go get a job. I’m meeting people, I got married, bought a house, things like that. But inside, I’m crumbling, and it’s like this huge downward slope while the other one’s going up. So I’m not enjoying anything, I’m not being able to handle things. I know I could do better at things if I wasn’t filled with that anxiety which, again, transfers with you into, like, work, meetings, travel. So all those life challenges along with these untreated mental health challenges, I am just crumbling to a point where at a certain point, after 20 years of this, I like to say it really controlled my life. And along the way, I’m starting to get a little bit of diagnosis, but no real action on it, no real information, even. And what happened was I got to a point, 20 years in, where I felt so powerless and had no forward way to even deal with these challenges, even the little bit I knew that I decided to try and end it all. I tried to end my life. That’s where it took me to. And I just want to say it because that was the bottom of feeling powerless and no way forward.

MARTIN: And so this is like your late thirties kind of thing?

BRUCE: This is at age 40. And I’d gone on long enough white knuckling and holding on to life, trying to get through things again. I’m still doing things. I’m not falling apart on the surface, but I’m falling apart every night. I’m struggling every day, every activity. And at that point, I got a second chance at life. And that’s what started this whole idea of, I got to find a solution. And after some internal looking, I realized the solution was the same thing that was causing all my problems. I said, wait, emotions, they have that much power to bring me down. They must have the power to show me life and bring me up. And if I could manage all of them, well, isn’t that at the core of mental health challenges, life challenges, like we’re saying? And so I started building for myself and then for others, this program, this Mental Health Warrior Program. And that came about because the first thing I wanted to do was, to myself even, was to tell people, mental health is not a weakness, and mental health challenges are not a weakness. And so I thought, a mental health warrior stands tall. A good warrior, ready for battle. We step up to the plate. And I thought that’d be a great way to introduce it and start to say, look at what we can do. The neat part is the whole idea was because I had gone through all sorts of traditional methods.  And even at the point of when I finally got diagnosed with bipolar and that you’d get put on a lot of meds, it’s the first thing everybody reacts to.

MARTIN: So you did do that? You took pharmaceuticals?

BRUCE: Yeah, I did. I went to therapy. I went through every med in the book because of the side effects, the problems. It took years trying to even get stable. But then I realized everything I was trying kind of had a dead end to it. There was no, how am I going to graduate past this? How am I going to go live life when I’m either tied to all the side effects of meds or.

MARTIN: Yeah, well, the pharmaceuticals have no end. They are just treating the surface problem, not the cause of it.

BRUCE: Exactly. And I thought, there has to be a way we can get the power ourselves. And that was the whole idea of this Mental Health Warrior Program is a self help program. So a self help approach, meaning, what can we do in our life? And I started looking around my life, too, at the same time, and realizing lifestyle changes, mindset changes that I could make, that I could build on, that would strengthen me. And they became warrior tools. They became areas that helped me deal with bipolar disorder, alcoholism, and anxiety disorder. And as I started to build all of this program, I realized that it was so impactful to me and what I could do myself and actually what I do every day with this, through all of those self help approaches or all those tools, I wanted to bring it to everybody. So that’s kind of why we’re talking today.

BRUCE: Cause I wanted to show everybody. It’s amazing.

MARTIN: Yeah, you’re echoing my story.

MARTIN: I ended my career in business management and computer science and became a health coach because this was more interesting to me because I could help others in a more important way than just helping somebody make more money.

BRUCE: Right. And that’s so funny. I forgot we were both in the IT field. I was in there on all different levels for 17 years, working on projects, doing development, leading projects. Then the same thing. I felt this had a lot more impact. And I tried to weave in things as I tried to work on my sobriety in my new life. I got certified, like, as a health coach. I got certified as a personal trainer and then nutrition coach. And that opens some doors of more self help things we can do where I know we’re on the same page. And this allowed me to build this program where now I have nine different books. And each one, like the first book, is my story. And a little bit like some structure of how to be a warrior and some key components of where you start building your power, you know, how you take back that control. And then a lot of the other books, I view them as the warrior weapons. And we have things like mindset rules that I created, and there’s a library of 53 of them I have in this book that I used to remind myself to stay out of trouble and get out of trouble. They’re simple things like that we forget because we get so busy, technology and everything’s pinging and going on.

BRUCE: Mindset rule two is simply learn to respond, not react. And that was a big one for me, because, of course, I would react, go back to those old solutions, jump back to drinking, hide from my emotions. So those are some of the fun tools I created that we can use to build that mindset. And then I tried to build, and again, where we are on the same page here. Then I started seeing other things like foods and the nutrition angle and how much that affects your mental health, as well as that physical-mental health connection, because if we feed bodies better and we exercise and use better foods, we improve our physical health, which in turn helps our mental health. And again, all the different benefits I found through researching things, or food benefits for mental health, it’s just amazing to me.

MARTIN: Yeah, I could echo that. Of course, we understand how the combinations of the macronutrients will affect the internal pH, which in turn will affect the. Whether you’re drifting into acidity, which is associated with anxiety and nervousness and all that, or drifting toward alkalinity, which is associated with procrastination and despondence and depression. And you can be anywhere on that spectrum. Like, you can be swinging just by what you eat. You can bring yourself from one side to the other. And if you don’t know or don’t understand or don’t have the awareness of that, you’re just wondering, what happened? Why did it happen?

BRUCE: Right, right.

MARTIN: It’s in front of our eyes, but it’s not being offered in the mainstream because it doesn’t serve their purpose. They want to sell you a bottle of pills.

BRUCE: Right. And again, I feel like we. A lot of what I’m trying to bring to people’s awareness is all the things that are in front of us. Like, I feel a lot of times the answers, like my own answer of realizing my mental health was at the core of everything, and that was my problem slash solution. But then things like foods, where we’re eating those foods every day, our mindset that we go into things, you know, that. That pre-work we may do before we get in the car and get into traffic and get stuck and then get frustrated. Boy, we took 2 seconds to center ourselves, what an amazing outcome. Same with what you’re saying if we pick some better foods.

MARTIN: Yeah. And your statement about respond versus react, I mean, it’s a major, major thing, right? If you just take three breaths and count to something and just. Okay, well, what does this really mean?

BRUCE: Right. And it helps.  One of the things I create as part of the program, so I have the books, is from other groups. I noticed they always have something you can carry with them, from the group to remind you. So I created a mental health warrior challenge coin because I had done some consulting with the military, and they had the challenge coin representing, we overcame this challenge, or I was here type of thing, and they could carry it around. So I thought it’d be great to have one of those. And I put on the back some warrior wisdom. I have different ones, but the first one I did was respond, not react. And I literally carry it around, and people say they also carry it, friends and family have used it and people have carried it, and they take it to a meeting or something. Again, it’s so important. If we just take that pause, get a better answer, a better outcome.

MARTIN: Fair enough. So you now have distilled all of this into a graduated program, or how do you deliver it?

BRUCE: Well, right now the program is basically in all the different books. I have a cornerstone book, which is “I triumphed over bipolar, alcoholism, and anxiety disorder by becoming a mental health warrior.” And then I lay out the different components. There’s four components to keep it straightforward but powerful, and then the additional books. And then what I’m trying to do is eventually, I would like to work with people directly, but right now I’m trying to bring awareness of it. So I’m doing my own podcast, writing articles and things like that to get people where what they can do. So I’m trying to get them to take action, and we’re trying to bring it out through the books as a way you can take in the information at your own pace, bring it to your life again, fit it in, whichever works. And part of what I’m doing, too, is with the variety of books, is they’re on different topics, so certain areas might appeal to you more. And there were certain things I found. One of them I called this one book, it’s the one bag life, and it’s about less stuff, more experiences, because I had. And we had gathered so many material goods and so many things, and I realized half of my anxiety came from needing more or taking care of the million things we never got to use or felt we needed. I thought that would be a great thing to bring to people’s attention and show how that positively affects your mental health.

MARTIN: Well, and one of the symptoms of mental illness is hoarding. And part of the hoarding problem is you could be hoarding all kinds of stuff. You could be hoarding material things or just a segment, like books or magazines or, I don’t know, software or games or whatever. Pick a thing. And this hoarding just is blocking you from having a life. And you’re saying it really well.

BRUCE: And again, it’s interesting what you brought up. You could even have so many activities or so many commitments that you get caught up into that constant being busy. And I felt like all I did was take care of things or go to things and never enjoy them. You know, I never got to what was important, like you’re saying. And so a big part of that book is, again, to step back as, one of the warrior components is to find your values, because if you go after everything and you’re not clear on your path, well, it makes it very difficult to have a solid emotional center, because you’re going after everything, and you need to figure out what’s important to you, and that will go a long way. Like, I had to myself that it wasn’t all these material goods. And the whole point of the book was, it’s really about experiences, you know, all the things you can do in life.

MARTIN: It’s really interesting. In reflecting on my life, I’m looking back, I’m thinking, I so wish I had a coach back when that would help me understand, first of all, the process of sorting through what’s important and why. I was never asked the important questions. I was never taught how to learn to. I was never taught how to think. I was never taught how. Like, I had to learn it the hard way. And you’re describing it when you’re talking about your teenage years and your growing up time. It was just like you were thrown at it and you were flailing at it, really, hoping somehow that it will sort itself out. And if you had your today’s version of yourself talking to you about what really matters, your life would have been so much better.

BRUCE: Yeah. And that’s one of the things I’m trying to do too, is I give talks to groups and things on these various topics because at all different age levels, it’s interesting. I’ll talk to a group and it can be at a business company talk, but they also really like the idea of less stuff, more experiences, because they see that’s part of that whole balance of what you want to do in life. And you’re right. I wish I had known all of that now, but I’m going to bring it out to everybody today. 

MARTIN: Yeah, this is the good part. Whoever’s listening to this, you can see two guys who are past midlife who have done the hard work and can pass it on. So if you’re finding yourself wondering why things aren’t as good as they could be, this may be because you didn’t have a guide. And I promise you that having a coach is worth its money in gold because the coach will be able to see where your gaps are and help you overcome that.

BRUCE: Yep. It’s always, always that outside perspective and people need that too. And I completely agree, too, because I like to tell people it’s never too late and there’s never too many problems because I use that as an example too, because all that time as an EMT and that, that kept coming back to me. And the PTSD from that, from the experiences and literally having someone die in your hands, especially when you’re 18 years old, you really don’t know how to process that. And it took me years to figure that out, which caused so much of the problems too, along the way. So I just want to always tell people, just like you’re saying it’s never too late. And then you can turn the corner and it’s fantastic what you can do, especially with mental health and how you can. Embracing emotions, to me, has allowed me to finally, I call it, I get the full life experience.

BRUCE: Before I was staying on little narrow paths because I was trying to avoid all the emotions. And now I’ve done things and I’m doing things that I couldn’t even imagine I could have done. And you probably feel the same way. Some days you look and think, wow, like, I’m doing this today, but boy, ten years ago, no.

MARTIN: Yeah, all that.

BRUCE: Yeah.

MARTIN: Okay. So, Bruce, how do people access all these beautiful experiences that they can have with you? I understand. Well, let’s start from the website, right?

BRUCE: Yep. So the website’s Bruce Schutter and it’s schutter. BruceSchutter.com. Also, I tell people you can just type in “mental health warrior program” and it’ll bring you to the website. So I’ve created that as like the central hub that has links to my podcast. I have a free book to get people started, newsletter, things like that that I’m starting. So all that information is there. And then the books and things like that are up on Amazon, but it links from there. That’s like the best spot to go to. Or, the best part, too, as I’m sure you know, is any of the social media places. I have a presence on that with the mental health warrior program or Bruce Schutter, so you can go there.

I try to keep people updated on what’s going on, tell them about new podcasts or new articles, always trying to bring in some new action tips people can take. So that’s definitely the best way to start to take advantage of all that. And there’s also then just like any website, you can have a contact form and things like I do speaking engagements, and right now we’re not doing like one on one that may come down the road, but it’s just really the hub for all the resources to get you started. And I try to provide a variety of things to keep people interested.

BRUCE: And then I have my podcast with shorter episodes to get you interested in what you can do as a warrior or if you like to read better, I have a free book and you can get started with tools in there. So I want to make sure I cover all the bases.

MARTIN: Yeah, well, that’s good, because it’s the way you’re doing it. Makes it affordable.

BRUCE: Yes, and that’s something we had talked about and everything with everything before, with some of the things I went through with the therapy and the meds and all of that. I’m very aware, too, of the cost of healthcare and the cost these days, especially in the mental health areas. And one of the things I’m trying to do is offer with this idea of self-help, is you can go and buy a book. I like to say for the cost of going to lunch, you could buy a book and get started on taking care of your mental health and learn things you can do each day, which I find so amazing. And I think that’s what’s kind of needed, as I always describe it, as there’s the top level when you need professional help and you need, certain times you need that help at the very top level. But what do we do to get started? You know, where’s that bottom level where everybody personally can just get started on things. And I’m trying to reach out to that level and get people to accept things, to be able to say, hey, it’s okay to have problems. You know, all the things we’re talking about openly, a lot of people are still struggling with, and I want to help out with that too. To get them to say it’s okay. And then getting a book and reading things about what you can do, I believe will empower people and that will keep pushing them to learn more and do more.

MARTIN: Yeah, well, many of us can be our own therapists, really, the solution is, you already said it, but the solution is in taking the gap and realizing, oh, hold on, I’m not going to react from the whatever it is that’s driving my silly or bad decisions and I’m going to just switch over to the other side and you can see it, like, I don’t want to talk to the crazy part of me today, I want to talk to the together part of me today and see what that wood suggest for me to do.

BRUCE: Yes.

MARTIN: And again, you’re explaining it well.

BRUCE: People always ask, too. I always like to throw in this scenario of, great to have all that outside help, but what do you do when it’s two in the morning and you wake up and your mind’s racing or maybe that depression has crept in and you feel like, oh, my life is not worth living. And I’m like, that’s where that self empowerment, that piece like we’re talking about is so important because we need to have that power ourselves. We need to feel more in control. And throughout the days, just like you’re saying. I know we keep using the word, but it’s so empowering that if you start taking care of your personal life, then your interactions at work, your interactions with friends and family, they can grow on that. And the best part is, I found it’s kind of like once you open the door, it’s amazing because you can start talking to more and more people about it. And that’s a sharing that I know we need with mental health because we don’t want to talk about too much.

BRUCE: But the more we do it, I find myself in amazing conversations in places, in line at a supermarket, talking about mental health to somebody because I happen to wear it on my shirt. And that’s a great piece of empowerment to be able to have an open conversation just like we’re doing. But we set this up, those are the unplanned bonuses.

MARTIN: Well, I especially appreciate the fact that you are helping people to help themselves. It’s so easy to throw a $6,000 program on the wall and just let the really rich people come to you and just help them as a private coach. But that catches only a few. What you’re doing, I think is really important because it’s at the level of everyone. There’s not a soul on the planet that cannot afford to participate at your level, the way you’re bringing it in and because of your lived experience, the way you’re putting it, and the way of understanding and just how organized your mind is and that you’re able to actually structure it for a person is that there’s no doubt in my mind that you will help a lot of people. All they have to do is just allow you into their life.

BRUCE: Thank you. And I find it amazing because I keep learning more things myself and then putting them into additional books. I started out with this a little bit, but mindfulness. And that fed into mindfulness along with cooking as a way. We already talked about how important it is to choose the right foods. But even doing cooking and enjoying the smells and your creation of a nice meal, what a wonderful thing I never had before. And you benefit across the board.

MARTIN: It’s known as walking meditation. Well, in this walking meditation, you’re actually cooking in your kitchen. And the process itself. Right. Like, instead of considering it as a struggle and something that you hate doing, and instead run into some fast food restaurant to grab something on the way. If you can just devote 2 hours of your life to the shopping and the prep and the doing, and you will have a fantastic experience and you will be actually more healthy, mentally healthy, and physically healthy at the end of this.

BRUCE: Right, exactly. And that’s where I made the book I was talking about, the three food rules of the mental health warrior. They’re very straightforward because I believe sometimes we get too complicated and it’s a little hard to sustain it then. But it’s low carb, no sugar, and then less processed, minimally processed foods. And if you follow those guidelines, like you said, you could go to a supermarket, it’s fairly straightforward. I mean, there’s details obviously, behind all of them. You know, how many grams of carbs, things like that. But you get the idea that you can make some great choices and then that comes home. Then you could use the preparation to help you work through some of your mental health issues. Racing thoughts and things calms me down with cooking. Again, I’ve tried to put some of that in as tools that people can use, and then again, all of that builds up to where you are now taking action, like you said, every day. And it just keeps building, which is fantastic, because what I found it allows people to do, and the people I’ve talked to is that you start building on that, and then you take your life and say new directions that you thought, oh, I couldn’t go there. And funny enough, life throws you some more challenges because you’re taking on something new, but you’re prepared to handle it, and you kind of keep stepping up and building the blocks.

MARTIN: Yeah, it’s well put. Because if you know that you can learn cooking from nothing, then you can also learn airplane building, or you can learn, I mean, pick anything. You can learn to play a musical instrument. All you have to do is just say, okay, how is this done?

BRUCE: Right, right. Or even maybe you’re cooking. Funny enough, I found this is a funny one, but your cooking gets you to share with people, and next thing you know, you’re talking to more people, which helped my social anxiety a lot. And that was fantastic, because now I found I have a connection with people talking about foods and cooking and things like that.

MARTIN: Right. And then you decide, okay, I’m learning Thai food and Ukrainian food and whatever else.

BRUCE: Right, right, exactly.

MARTIN: And then. Then you have to go to, I don’t know, what cultural center for the Serbians and say, well, how do you do proper serbian food? And you meet Serbian people.

BRUCE: Yeah. But then you’ve gained a whole new interest, and at the same time, that boosts your mental health and your ability to handle your challenges. I mean, it certainly gives you a solid ground when my bipolar is still going to send me. I didn’t have a magic wand because I became a mental health warrior and say, well, no more bipolar or no more anxiety and no more PTSD, but I can manage wherever it sends me. So if it sends me into depression, I have my tools and ways for that. And if it goes to the other end, I can handle that and keep it under control. And I found it amazing because basically, I love to say we gain back the power, all that power I gave up over those years, I found I could have it back. And then, therefore, your challenges, they really don’t become as scary, and they lose all that control over your life, which is amazing.

MARTIN: Yeah. I think we may as well end it on this note, saying, okay, look, folks, this is a very well put together, affordable, well structured program that helps anyone grow up. So if you yourself have struggled, great. If you have someone in your circle of influence that you see struggling, just introduce them. This stuff is worth, well I don’t know how to put it, but experience is in gold, right?

BRUCE: And I.

MARTIN: Go ahead.

BRUCE: No, I was just going to say I always end up telling people, if you’re struggling yourself, use my story, like we said, never too late. You could have a lot of challenges like I do. I just happen to pick up a lot of them through genetic lottery, whatever. But you can triumph over them. You can keep moving forward and you can. You can triumph as a warrior over all those challenges.

MARTIN: Awesome. Okay, so www.BruceSchutter.com  Go there. Bruce, Thank you. This is so much worth our time.

BRUCE: Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Had a lot of fun talking.

MARTIN: This is Martin Pytela, life-enthusiast.com. Thank you.

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Podcast 487: Master Peace Clinical Study (Part 1)

Martin Pytela sits down with Matt Hazen from Human Consciousness Support to explore groundbreaking discoveries in the battle against environmental toxins. Matt shares insights from a recent study of 24 participants, investigating the effects of “forever chemicals” like lead, mercury, and graphene oxide have on our health. Together, they reveal the alarming rise in industrial toxins and introduce Master Peace, a natural solution aimed at helping the body detoxify and regain balance. Join us for an in-depth discussion on how we can reclaim our health in a polluted world, and don’t miss part two, where the study results will be revealed.

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MARTIN: Hi, everyone. This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast and with me today, Matt Hazen of Human Consciousness Support. We get the Master Peace product from Matt. And I am so grateful for this association. Welcome, Matt.

MATT: Hi, Martin. Always good to talk to you.

MARTIN: Yeah, Matt, I am just so impressed with you for, never mind all the anecdotal stories that we are getting from the field. I mean, my own included, people getting better, people having positive experiences. But you are really stepping it up, putting out real clinical, scientific, measurable data, right?

MATT: Absolutely. Yeah. What we need to do, as an entire population, is learn how to be critical thinkers again. We’ve been programmed to believe the authority figures are the doctors a lot of times and what not, instead of looking for the data and evidence and analysis, which are ironclad facts. And so we’re real excited. And today we’re actually going to get a chance to show people what is our baseline, our beginning results to a study with 24 people. It’s really important that people see with their eyes and get to take this information in so they can understand the world that they live in and how best to maintain and thrive and have their best health in today’s unique times.

MARTIN: Okay. This totally makes sense. I have been talking about the tragedy of the Industrial Revolution. On one hand, we are getting all these wonderful conveniences. We have products that are really helping us live lives that are more comfortable, but at the same time, we are polluting the planet in a way that’s just. Well, I think we are hitting what I would call the inflection point, the critical mass, the toxic point, where all of a sudden things are going to get out of hand.

MATT: I agree. Yeah, we’re at a tipping point. We can look at not just human health and how the human race is in a worldwide health epidemic, but you can look at our woods, you can look at our ecosystem. Everything is showing trouble. And especially now that we’re looking at tested levels, we’re really going to see why. Well, it looks bad, but we’re going to really see why it’s looking that bad.

MARTIN: Yeah, I actually wanted to introduce this concept. I don’t know if, well, it’s worth sharing. And it’s this, the lethality of things. As in, what kills you. It’s known as the LD, as in lethal dose. Now, you can easily establish an LD. As in LD1 means that one out of a hundred dies from the dose. LD100 means everybody dies. And a lot of testing that’s done for drug companies is done on LD50, and that’s usually done with mice, not with people. But you administer a dose, and if 50 out of 100 die, that’s known as the LD50. Here’s the mental exercise I want everyone to get, which is this. When you combine LD1 of mercury with LD1 of lead, meaning kills 1 in 100. Kills 1 in 100. What do you think you get?

MATT: If I was going to guess, I would say it’s at least exponential, maybe 10 instead of 1.

MARTIN: Yeah. But the answer really is 100. Combining LD1 of Lead with LD1, of Mercury at the same time kills everybody because it’s this exponential amplification of the effect.

MATT: Yeah. It’s a synergistic- Yeah. It’s always the way it works, whether it’s good or bad, it’s how things work together.

MARTIN: Yeah. And so with the scientific method, as employed by pharmaceutical industry and chemical industry, tends to isolate things. They like to treat one thing at a time. They like to isolate the variables to one. But that’s false wisdom, because you don’t see it in its complexity. You’re missing the big picture.

MATT: That’s right. And they’ll tell you. They’ll admit that, yeah, lead’s bad, mercury’s bad, fluoride’s bad, chlorine’s bad. They won’t say, yeah, but they’re all together destroying our planet. And we need to make complete changes on how our industrial processes are really where it needs to start. First and foremost, all these exhaust fumes you’re bringing up maybe one of the biggest points that a lot of people don’t realize, which is when the industrial revolution started, we had all these combustion engines, petroleum based products, and when those exhaust fumes and refineries and chemical plants started having those harmful chemicals, we think they disappear, go away, because they’re microscopic. But that’s not the way it works. They’re called forever chemicals because they’re forever.

MATT: And they’re not just forever in the environment, as if they don’t get into you and other sentient beings. It gets into everything. So if something’s in the ocean and it’s poured into the ocean, in the Pacific Ocean, it ends up in the Atlantic Ocean if you give it enough time. And so when one person, two, three years ago, we wouldn’t see, we’ve seen graphene anomalies in very few people’s blood. Now they can’t do a live blood analysis anywhere in the world without seeing them, no matter how healthy the person is. So we’re dealing with the smorgasbord of toxicity, and we better get it under wrap before much further.

MARTIN: Yeah, you made actually a really cool point with the graphene oxide because there are some people who are making suggestions that it’s only in people who have been injected with things that have graphene oxide in it. But in fact, it’s in the environment. It’s in everyone.

MATT: Well, we’re going to prove different to them today, Martin, because we have a study with 24 people. 13 of them have been jabbed and eleven of them haven’t been. But when you actually look at their graphene oxide levels, also like their hydrogel, which is the carrier of the graphene oxide system, it doesn’t matter if they’ve been jabbed or not. Their levels are high. Some that haven’t been jabbed are much higher than some that have been. Yeah.

MARTIN: And this is the point I just tried to make, which is probably in the environment, in the water, in the food, in the air. It’s just in us. So we like to do the following. So this is a volume one or podcast one. We are actually just going to show you the baseline. We’re going to show you some examples of people who have already started on the test. This is just before they started on the product. They’ve been tested just to see where we are.

MATT: This is a medical study. This has an abstract methodology. This will be published in peer review. Every place that will allow us to publish it has been monitored by Doctor Robert Young, who’s done countless of these. And what we’re doing is we have 24 test subjects who, we take their blood levels and test the intracellular levels of forever chemicals, 27 of them. And what that means is, we took their blood to measure the inside the cell levels of things like fluoride, glyphosate, graphene oxide, mercury, different types of aluminum, there’s several of lead. And so we got the results and then we put them on Master Peace.

MATT: We have done an initial study, an initial pilot study, which was only with three people. We wanted to see how the results went out before we tried to take on something like this. There’s no other companies out there that are really challenging their products’ effectiveness and trying to show people a workable, feasible, affordable, simple, effective solution to be able to get these unnatural things out of their body. And so, you have a chart pulled up right here. And so instead of,

MARTIN: Let’s talk about this a wee bit. So we have. We are only showing five out of the 24 that you have done. The main point being here is that you’re really not sparing much of an expense. You’re going all in. This is not just a narrow test. This is a broad test.

MATT: We’re a brand new company, and this is costing us almost $200,000. We’re not even, we’re a year old. We don’t pay money in the marketing to try to have catchy sales pitches. We put our money into evidence. And so this is why we’re the first and only company that has done this. But also, Martin, these are intracellular levels. See how you see intracellular electrical capacity? Passing lymphocytes. We are also a part of the study, we’re not just taking the blood. We’re taking the urine and testing it for all the heavy metals. And the hair and testing it for all the heavy metals. So there’s nowhere for these toxins to hide. We’re going to see how they’re moving in. In the body and out.

MARTIN: Okay. So let’s just discuss what’s going to be on screen for a moment. And what I see here is, for one thing, it looks European by the units and the commas and the spellings. So good on you that you’ve actually taken it offshore to places where real science is actually still unaffected.

MATT: In America, there’s no labs that will test for any of this stuff.

MARTIN: Yeah. And so the other thing is, if you look at the line just going across, you will see that there is this evaluation of how bad we think this is, or they think this is. This is the actual value averaging four separate measurements. And over here is the value that’s the plus minus variance in it. So that gives you the precision of the confidence that we have in this value being accurate. So.

MATT: Yes. And to be clear, right before this study started, they did their yearly recalibration. And that’s why, when we look at those values, we see they’re very, very close. So every time they’re making a test so that everybody understands when we’re taking their blood and they’re testing it, which is obviously third party testing, they’re testing it four times and seeing, Making sure it all comes out the same. They double check themselves, too. And you can see how close their equipment is at testing. Yeah.

MARTIN: Right. So one other word should be here is that they show here tolerable. Borderline high. Very high. Which, you know, tolerable is not making you sick. Borderline may make you sick. High will probably make you sick. And very high will for sure make you sick.

MATT: Very high is a lot. Yeah. You’re starting to get off to where the cut off the machine is about 600.

MARTIN: So anyway, the point being is. So this is your typical sample. Persons, I don’t know their ages, are what, somewhere between 40 and 65?

MATT: 25 to 87

MARTIN: Oh, okay. All broad spectrum. Okay.

MATT: All different types of people. We know every single thing about them. There’s a four page sheet. We know their life story. Yes. 

MARTIN: Okay. Yeah. This has been, of course, anonymized. We don’t want to reveal them. But here’s an example. Right. So what is being tested?

MATT: So number one, that’s polyethylene glycol. That’s what you call hydrogel. Hydrogel is if you got a ballistic missile, it’s kind of like the rocket and the graphene oxide is the bomb on the end. And so hydrogel gets it in there. So you obviously don’t want that in your body. It’s plastic.

MARTIN: Well, speaking of which, PEG, polyethylene glycol is what is used in vaping solutions to make them absorbable.

MATT: Yeah. And transdermal medications. It’s very widely used in the pharmaceutical industry because it does what they want it to do. It brings to get stuff in there.

MARTIN: Yeah, yeah. It’s a vector, it’s a transport medium. So of course, aluminum, the euro spelling, studies show that high aluminum is associated with brain destruction.

MATT: All types of issues. Yeah.

MARTIN: Many issues. But aluminum is used either in cooking or in food packaging. But the worst part is that it’s used as an adjuvant in injections.

MATT: Yes. And they even put it in things like deodorant. You know, it’s what I call a super threat. Aluminum is a conductor. The way it works, it makes a lot of things. And it’s very paramagnetic. 

MARTIN: Yeah. Well, anyway, so this is going to be a list that we will not go through completely in every single arsenic. Well, it’s toxic. It killed Napoleon, it will kill many others.

MATT: Right.

MARTIN: Aspergillus, that’s a black mold.

MATT: Yep. Yep. Atrazine is a chemical, a gender dysphoria chemical where you have girls that think they’re boys, boys think they’re girls.

MARTIN: Yeah.

MATT: And so, you know, we want to see if Master Peace can get that down because that’s a problem in itself.

MARTIN: Right. Strong, strong statement. In fact, you see that in nature, right. These days frogs are hermaphroditic. Snakes, I just saw it on television yesterday. A male snake giving birth to babies. Well, go figure, right?

MATT: Yeah.

MARTIN: Anyway, barium, that’s. I’m not sure what it does, but.

MATT: It is a very harmful, heavy metal that is used in a lot of things. 

MARTIN: Right. So this thing, bisphenol, BPA, is plastic bottles. This is a plasticizer modifier. It’s in your plastic dishes. It’s not good for you. It will create the condition in your body that will be highly inflammatory.

MATT: Yeah, yeah. You can see this person here. They have high aluminum salts. They have high barium. They have real high chlorine. We’re looking at cesium 137. That’s a neurotoxin. That’s very harmful.

MARTIN: Yeah. Very, very bad. Okay.

MATT: If you look at fluor, f-l-u-or. That is fluoride. There’s three types of fluoride, to my knowledge, and they were testing for that. No one’s ever tested fluoride, right? So we’re having a lot of anecdotal claims from thousands of people with Master Peace.

MARTIN: Well, you skipped over. You skipped over a couple. Dioxin and ethylmercury. Those are the ones that really, really take you down.

MATT: Yes.

MARTIN: My own life story was taken down by mercury. And dioxin is terrible news. It’s neurotoxin in a terrible way.

MATT: We’re seeing high levels of mercury and lead throughout, people, basically.

MARTIN: Glyphosate, that’s the main ingredient in Roundup. Graphene oxide is what you mentioned a moment ago. Too much iron, too much lead, too much mercury. And look at that. These are perfluoro, octano, sulfon, octane, sulfion.

MATT: PFOS.

MARTIN: PFOS. These are teflon and his cousins.

MATT: Yes. Phosgene was supposed to be banned back in World War I. It’s so bad. Still around, people.

MARTIN: This is essentially the most neurotoxic gas. This phosgene.

MATT: Yes. And do you remember that train wreck in East Palestine?

MARTIN: Yeah.

MATT: And it was vinyl dichloride. Well, when you burn vinyl dichloride, it becomes phosgene.

MARTIN: Yeah. Dioxins and phosgene. Yep.

MATT: And then we can look at plutonium. I mean, that’s a scary word.

MARTIN: This is nuclear bomb explosions. Yeah.

MATT: So.

MARTIN: So that’s interesting that it’s has actually gotten to people where no nuclear weapon was exploded.

MATT: Right. Which proves that we’re in a, you know, whatever’s in the world, it’s in us.

MARTIN: Yeah. I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe Chernobyl released some of that. Maybe.

MATT: Yeah.

MARTIN: I don’t know. But anyway, polyethylene is your basic plastic stuff. Plastic bottles and plastic wrappings, packaging and all of that. PET, those are the hard bottles. And polypropylene, that’s another form of plastic. And titanium dioxide, that’s a filler that’s used in, well, a lot of nutritional supplements will use either silicon dioxide or titanium dioxide as a filler.

MATT: Yeah.

MARTIN: Titanium is not your buddy.

MATT: And all these things are forever chemicals. All of our bodies don’t know how to manage them or get them out. The more that they accumulate in the environment and the more generations we have of this ever accumulating toxins from the industrial revolution, we’re seeing the effects on their health. But what we need to all know is real simple. You were made correct by your creator. Your body is beautiful. It works great if it’s not toxic and polluted. And so what we need to know to do is real simple, get this stuff out faster than it’s coming back in until we can clean up the environment that we live in.

MARTIN: Okay, so let’s just flip through a few of these just to show you what we’re, what you are finding in people. So here is another one. And this one looks more toxic than the one we saw a moment ago. Like, there is hardly anything in green.

MARTIN: Everything’s too high. Everything. This person is probably quite unwell. And at number 4, look at that. We have, this one is less toxic. Many of these are tolerable. But the point is that there should be zero, not some. There should be none.

MATT: Martin, the first time, when we did our initial pilot study a little more than six months ago, and we took the people’s levels of graphene oxide and polyethylene glycol and what not. When we looked at the numbers of the baseline of our current study, the numbers have gone up in less than a year, by about 30%. So, we’re seeing an increase.

MARTIN: Yeah, that could be geographic, but I believe that you’re right in the estimation that time makes things worse because it’s around.

MATT: The initial pilot study was in the same place as half the people of this study. Half the people of this study are from United Kingdom, and the three people in the initial pilot study were from United Kingdom. So the levels are, yeah.

MARTIN: Okay. All right. And look at these awful numbers. I mean, this is just terrible.

MATT: Look at that arsenic. What is that person doing with their health thinking that it’s something else I bet you. Not having an idea they’ve just been poisoned to this extent.

MARTIN: Cesium is high, mercury is high. These other two mercury values very high. Yeah, not good.

MATT: The safe levels of all these things, as we said, is zero. That’s what’s the normal level if we have a normal, healthy environment and body. So, yeah, even numbers that are saying hundreds is causing problems.

MARTIN: So, I’m going to stop the screen share now to get your beautiful face back on the screen. So what we are, what we just saw is the beginning. This is the opening salvo, we are showing you that we, well Matt has and his team assembled people, tested them and found them to be toxic. The next conversation that we’re going to have, how long is it going to be before we see the final results?

MATT: We’re looking at about 60 days from now. And so we have a baseline, which we’ve completed. Then we do a 30 day test, we do a 60 day test, a 90 day test, the hair follicle test, the final one will be at 180 days. But we’ll have all the other results from the urinalysis and blood in about 60 days. Yes.

MARTIN: All right, so in a few months, we’re going to be coming back here with. And here is the. After the treatment or whatever we call it, after you have used this natural, God made, beautiful thing called Master Peace.

MATT: Right. We took two ingredients to help, very natural ingredients that have never shown any type of harmful side effects in people. You’re talking about purified, structured ocean water in the healthiest part of the ocean. So you’re talking about sea plasma and you’re talking about the most highest-sourced natural clinoptilolite zeolite. And so it’s a match made in heaven and we’re seeing very good results, but we want to back those results with real evidence. Right. A lot of people have a lot of fancy, good sounding testimonies.

MARTIN: Yeah. I mean, I have. I have had my own experience with the very clean clinoptilolite that you’re using as your source. That’s what dug me out of my hole, which.

MATT: Yes, that’s right. We have the same. Yes, that’s right. We have the same source on that. Yeah, yeah. It’s very impressive, by the way. I. We vetted it. When you’re talking about millivolts, charges, electromagnetic charges of things that zeolite, it has no comparison to it from all the places that we had vetted. It is superior.

MARTIN: Right. Yeah.

MATT: And it costs about ten times more than everybody else, by the way.

MARTIN: Yes, it does cost more.

MATT: About ten times. And it’s worth it. And we’d spend a hundred times. Because we made this thing to help humanity. Not to have a get rich quick scheme.

MARTIN: Yeah. Well, there’s a third ingredient which I really love. That’s the unspoken unknown, ORMUS experience in my body. Of course, you cannot analyze for ORMUS. You only know that you’re getting it because of how it makes you feel. There’s no chemical analysis or spectrographic analysis that I run to say, and I have ORMUS in here.

MATT: Right. But if you’re more connected, you do know if you’re telepathy, which are things that are now provable, if they’re increasing.

MARTIN: Well, my own experience, right, like, I’ve been in this since 1996. I have concentrated it from natural sources. I have picked it up from various places. And I have used it a lot. So I know when I’m getting it. Because I have the experience of it. And it’s in there.

MATT: That’s right.

MARTIN: And the main benefit of this ORMUS material. Is that it connects your higher consciousness to your physical expression. You will express the will of your creator through yourself with greater efficiency.

MATT: I totally agree. If you feel better, think better. And you’re more connected to your spiritual nature, which is a lot more important than your physical, which so many people can’t even get past the physical. Because they feel so bad, their bodies are so contaminated. And to be able to live a healthier life where you think better, you affect everything in your life and your world and your environment in a more positive way. And that is doing your part to make a better world. And Master Peace is doing that for people.

MARTIN: Right. One of the religious books that I’ve read is called a “Course in Miracles.” Not just read, I’ve lived it. And one of the statements in there is this: “Love reveals everything unlike itself.” Watch this. This is a statement that’s so loaded with meaning that it’s made difficult. When you put in something that’s made with love and carries the vibration of creation and love, it will reveal everything that’s unlike that. And I have been watching for the last while the dark force come out, trying to take Master Peace on.

MATT: Yes. From every angle conceivable. And Master Peace is a real game changer for this world. It is showing itself as having all the ability to do what we all were hoping would show up. Something that could work like this. And there’s a lot of places. There’s pharmaceutical industries. There’s alternative holistic practitioners and what not that tell people what protocols that they need to take a vast array of different supplements that they need to buy into and whatnot. But the fact of the matter is, like we were talking about. Our bodies if they’re healthy and they’re not polluted, they heal themselves. Nothing heals you other than your healthy body being able to heal itself. And Master Peace gets the junk out. It’s really simple. And it’s gentle and it’s effective. And you don’t have to go to an office somewhere.

And you don’t have to change your lifestyle habits. You don’t have to get up early and start a new workout. You don’t have to. You might feel better and you actually will probably start doing some of those things, but you don’t have to. And you’re going to be improving your holistic, well, life, which makes. Yeah, so it’s been really neat. We have like over 4000 testimonies, Martin. They’re the most amazing stories. I’m sure you get emails too, where people are like, I can’t believe that I’m experiencing this.

MARTIN: And yeah, I want to say it from this perspective. It’s known as the blocking factors. The blocking factors are that which is preventing the natural homeostatic expression of your body to seek its own perfect balance when you have that stuff on board. And they could be chemical, they could be physical and they could be emotional, these blocking factors will prevent your creative expression or your health expression. The homeostatic balance. And that’s what we’re talking about. So, yes, those thousands of stories that are coming through now are very heartening.

MATT: Yeah. And it’s all about. That’s what I wake up for. That’s why Master Peace was created.

MARTIN: Yeah. I wanted to actually just speak of the names or tell names, which is the following. The biggest pushback that we have seen is from people who are using EDTA as their favorite means of detoxing people. They come from a good place. They want to detox people. They see that people are toxic and they want to help. That part, I grant. What’s different is this, EDTA is a very hungry chemical.

It’s unlike the zeolite, which is an electrophysical reaction where the ion is pulled in and held without any chemical reaction. EDTA is actually a chemical bonding. So it will get into tissues and it will take out not just the big fish like the cadmium and lead and mercury. It will get everything that’s electropositive, as in calcium, magnesium, other minerals, including the ugly ones we don’t want. But it does take a lot of what you would call the desirable, the good things.

MATT: Yes, yes. And EDTA, the reason why it actually came out into the public to be able to be used and by people who now sell it and so forth, was from an EUA, an emergency use authorization, which is the same thing that got the COVID shot. And the reason why they did that is because the trials that they had done for decades, they had to stop many of them due to fatalities, different things like that. So it needs to be monitored. It is playing with fire, but it’s not for me to beat it down. They don’t want Master Peace here.

MARTIN: When used in a very controlled clinical situation, it can easily be used successfully to detoxify a person. No question there. But there is a lot of downside to it.

One is the danger of decalcifying you. When you drop your calcium level too low, you could actually cause serious hypocalcemia. Well, including your heart stopping, because your heart requires a balance of calcium and magnesium to function. So if you get yourself out of balance too far, it’ll stop working. So that’s why Matt mentioned a couple of the studies actually were stopped because too many subjects were seriously damaged, including death.

MATT: We’re looking at something that is being promoted at places. EDTA as a natural product, which is exactly opposite of the truth. It’s a pharmaceutical, and it’s made from sodium cyanide and formaldehyde. The reason why we’re seeing the pushback with these practitioners that use EDTA in their protocol, is because when people started becoming aware that health had a lot to do with detoxing, then people started looking at these new chelators and things like that. EDTA got real big in 2020, 2021. Well, people call these practitioners, and the practitioner says, you got to come in here, we got to look at your blood. We got to see where you’re at.

MATT: And so when the people have to make that appointment, look at their blood, no matter who they are, they always come back with the same personalized protocol, which involves a shot of EDTA intravenous and other things. And it costs anywhere from $1,200 to $1,800 a session. So if people have option A of going there every three weeks, going through a day-long thing at an office, or they can just go buy a $55 bottle of Master Peace. And Master Peace actually has the proof behind it where it can say, hey, it’s going to get your broad spectrum of levels down, which is what you need to do. You don’t want to just get out the graphene oxide, just the mercury. You got to get all these plastics and everything else out. And so Master Peace was made for humanity. That’s why it’s affordable. And the people, yeah, it’s causing a big rift out there, Martin. We’re seeing a big rift.

MARTIN: Well, when you threaten the method and livelihood and whatever, I mean, seriously, compare something that will cost you twelve trips to somebody’s office, several hours sitting with an IV drip in your arm, versus having a bottle on your shelf at a fraction of the cost. And one other thing is a lot of these practitioners like to test people because they want to prove to you that you have a problem. And I keep telling people, listen, it’s going to cost you $300 to do a start test on just the major items. Then you’re going to spend the x dollars on the sessions, probably $2,000. And then you’re going to do another $300 test to prove that you have now cleaned out. So how about this? You just give me $300, get six bottles of Master Peace and just take them in the convenience of your home.

MATT: And it’ll last you about a year. Yeah, exactly right. And so they don’t want that option out there, you know.

MARTIN: Well, not everybody has the time and the money to do it. Let’s call it industrial way. Okay, so that’s story number one.

MATT: Yeah, we also got the FDA, you know, they. They decided to call our purified marine plasma, which actually was from the part of the ocean where the sea turtles migrate every year, the ones that live to 300. And so they decided to call it a drug. Not sure how ocean water gets classified that way, but we just got that in.

MARTIN: Listen, Matt, stop the presses. I can prove that an apple is a drug because an apple a day will keep a doctor away. It’s loaded with malic acid, and malic acid can be used to dissolve gallstones. Therefore I can actually do that. There was another story with tart cherry juice. I don’t know if you remember that, but tart cherry juice is detoxifying the kidneys. And so people have been drinking tart cherry juice for the longest time. And then one manufacturer decided to actually put it on the label, tart cherry juice. Detox your kidneys. FDA was all over them. You cannot sell cherries as a health product.

MATT: And then they had Health Canada shut us down. And they said that is because it was a natural product.

MARTIN: Well, this is a logistical problem, Matt. This is probably a lack of understanding of how the systems are different. In Canada, they have a permissive or permission based system where before you sell the first thing, you have to come to them with your recipe and your studies and say, I will sell this product with the following claim. And you will when you have your studies in your hand, you’ll be able to go to Health Canada and say, I want to put on my Canadian label, “removes forever chemicals”, removes toxic metals, and they will approve you with that. Once you have the studies, they cannot deny you what you can prove.

MATT: Yeah, we had our lawyer team on it, and when it came down, because we do have our initial pilot study, and we actually weren’t making claims that they said. They said it was because it’s sold as a natural product. They really are kind of coming down on dietary supplements. But you’re right, we didn’t try to jump through their hoops. We should have.

MARTIN: You should have.

MATT: Yeah, yeah

MARTIN: No, this is. Listen, I sell a product that’s called Miracle II Soap and I cannot sell it in Canada for resale. I cannot import it to Canada for resale because a claim was made that this particular soap cleared somebody’s skin cancer. It did, right? Proveably, it did. But Health Canada said, you’re selling a health product. And the manufacturer said, no, I’m selling soap. And Health Canada said, the claim was made. Prove it to me. And the manufacturer said, I don’t have the study and I will not make the study. And Health Canada said, well, you cannot sell it here because it’s a natural product. And so it’s that sort of standoff. Two shotguns. Right? You’re wrong. No, you’re wrong. No, you’re wrong. And that’s the end of that. So the manufacturer says, Canada, go f yourself.

MATT: We’re absolutely doing our best on all fronts. I think the reason why we are doing so wonderful is because every single person that was involved, literally every single person, they were not getting involved in this because of the money or anything. It was the intention. They knew that this was going to improve people’s lives, and they believed if it did the way that it was created, that we had something special. And we have the greatest people around keeping this thing up. We have cyber attacks from supercomputers that are a half a billion of them a night, half the time, and we have my tech guy, who is the most incredible guy that has protected us there. We would have been in terrible shape if we were a normal company that didn’t have someone in those shoes right there. Master Peace has to get out to the world, Martin, because everybody needs Master Peace. So whatever happens, I’m already in this thing to the very end because we’re doing it for humanity.

MARTIN: Yeah. Well, I have my own personal story from three angles. Angle one was the mercury toxicity that happened to me back in 1977. I have the ORMUS story that happened to me in 1996. And I have the plasma story, which happened to me in 2004. So, meaning this, the ingredients that are in here are whole, holistic, natural, helpful. And what to say about it, other than it’s the antidote to the mess that the industrial age is bringing upon us.

MATT: Yes, it is. It is the solution to the pollution. It really is. So this same formula, if we sprayed it in the skies, if we used it for our farming, it would be doing the same exact thing that it’s doing inside of the human body. And it’s pretty amazing, really. We took the very finest things of nature. And doesn’t nature always have the solution right? We just have to find it.

MARTIN: Just have to find it. Thank you for finding it, Matt.

MATT: I was just the one that kind of got the message. I was just meditating in my thing.  I had a property where I had $12 a year in property taxes. So I had all this time on my hand, and I got real big into health and healing stuff. Lo and behold, I started having kids again. Most of my kids are very old, about 30. And I thought, I can’t protect this little girl from this world that’s going to heck in a handbasket. And I thought someone needed to kind of create it. And I had a really good partner of mine that would do an infinite amount of research, and away we went. And all of a sudden, the greatest people in the world started like, yeah, they bought into it. And all of a sudden, we had a team, and we were off and running, and it came together.

MARTIN: Hallelujah.

MATT: Yeah. This is now, Martin. There’s countless of us. They’re flocking and migrating. We just had the UK Health Alliance yesterday who has now said that Master Peace is the one that they are running with for their product for detoxing people. And in Master Peace, it shows off how our bodies are healing machines if they’re cleaned up properly. And so it doesn’t do anything other than just detox the body, reduces the levels of these harmful things so our bodies can be their magical selves, you know?

MARTIN: I don’t think I can add to that. All right, let’s. Let’s put a pin in it. Matt, I’m looking forward to talking to you in 60 days when the results come in. And we’ll, we’ll show it side by side. Well, we’ve already seen the first three, right? We already know it worked on three. We’re now expanding it to 24, which by the way, qualifies as a real clinical study. 

MATT: Yeah, Yes.

MARTIN: Don’t think that the likes of Pfizer and other large companies use greater numbers. They don’t.

MATT: No, no. And we’re, you know, we’re going to be able to show the solution, the affordable solution, so that people can be able to. We’re seeing how toxic levels are in soil samples and people samples now. And so we have an easy to take, simple to take, doesn’t taste bad. You don’t have to win the lottery to be able to afford it. And it’s gentle but very effective.

MATT: And it’s made for all of us.

MARTIN: Matt Hazen, I thank you. This is Martin Pytela for life-enthusiast.com by phone at (866)543-3388. Thanks.

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Podcast 486: Fitness with Brian Keane

We are thrilled to welcome Brian Keane on the podcast today. Brian’s remarkable journey began with serious health challenges and the use of alcohol as a coping mechanism, evolving into his role as a renowned global fitness coach and extreme endurance athlete. He opens up about how he conquered chronic headaches, gut issues, and emotional struggles by taking charge of his nutrition and fitness. Brian’s story underscores the importance of a holistic approach to health, one that integrates physical fitness with mental resilience, nutrition, and self-awareness. Today, he is dedicated to empowering others to enhance their energy, vitality, and body composition through online personalized fitness and nutrition coaching. Dive into more details on his website: https://briankeanefitness.com/

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MARTIN: Hello, everyone. Martin Pytela here for Life Enthusiast podcast. And with me today, I have Brian Keane. The business is known as Brian Keane Fitness. And just look at him. He looks fit, Brian.

BRIAN: Martin, absolute pleasure to be on, and I’m really looking forward to chatting.

MARTIN: Yeah, Brian, I want to try and pick you as one of the representatives of healthy maleness, the boy who grows to be a healthy man and expresses himself joyfully and is able to know why that is, how that is, and how to share it with others. What do you think?

BRIAN: Yeah, let’s do it. Let’s dive into the story and try and serve in any way we can.

MARTIN: Well, how did we get here?

BRIAN: It’s interesting because we were speaking on my podcast when you were on, about your mercury fillings when you were 25 and how that kind of set you up on your journey. And mine is slightly different, but not completely away from what happened with you. I had a lot of health issues when I was a teenager, so I missed nearly a year of school because I would get these chronic headaches. And it was something that I went to every Western doctor. I was getting MRIs on the monthly, I was getting blood tests done regularly, and nobody could figure out what was going on. I just had these chronic headaches and migraines. And I ended up going to university the next year and started drinking a lot of alcohol, which, very weirdly, got rid of my headaches and became a coping mechanism. I know, a temporary solution, a band-aid on a bloody wound, but a temporary solution.

BRIAN: And over the next few years, I used alcohol as a coping mechanism. And I moved to the states and I was working with Berkeley University. I was teaching soccer with Berkeley University. I have a sports background, and I ended up being hospitalized out there. I started spitting up blood and had to be hospitalized. And at the time, they said it was a bleeding ulcer or an ulcer that was bleeding, and that I had gallbladder problems. And they gave me a mouthful and handful of medications and were like: “Alright on your way, away you go.” And of course as you know, based on everything you’ve done and helped with people over the years that didn’t support me. It stopped the bleeding, but all the health underlying issues were there.

BRIAN: So I decided I was going to take my nutrition and my health into my own control. And at the age of 22, I started to look into nutrition more. I started to eliminate a lot of the crappy foods that weren’t actually helping me, that I thought were, quote unquote, healthy. I was eating a lot of protein bars, a lot of packaged chicken, just no fruits, no vegetables, just bro food, you know, thinking that this is what you should eat. I’m a man and I’m an athlete, and this is what I should eat. And it was ruining my gut microbiome, it was ruining my health. And over the space of about 18 months, I got rid of all my headaches. I fixed most of the issues with my gut, and for the first time, I was feeling energized.

BRIAN: I was walking around quite lean, quite muscular. I had a six pack and abs, and I felt tremendous. And then two years later, I went down the road of becoming a qualified personal trainer, a certified nutritionist. And that led me into this path the last decade, eleven years now, helping people with their nutrition, with their fitness, with their training, so that they could feel more energy, more vitality, and just get to whatever body composition or athletic performance they want.

MARTIN: Right. And so how do you do that? Do you do that over the Internet, remotely all over the world?

BRIAN: Yeah. So, similar to you. I think it was 2009, I think you moved online, if I remember correctly, 2016, I was later, I started in a gym and was working one to one as a personal trainer and a nutritionist with people. And then in 2016, the year after my daughter was born, I moved everything online, and we’ve been online since. So doing online programs, online coaching with people, we’ve got small group coaching that are scaled, and then we’ve got one to one coaching, which is specific to people, where I do customizable, bespoke and personalized programs based on their history.

MARTIN: All right, and so do you have quite a varied range of clients, or who are the people who benefit the most?

BRIAN: It’s mostly body composition with secondary goals. So people looking to lose weight, lose body fat, tone up, build muscle, and then they have secondary issues. They want to improve their sex drive, they want to improve their sleep, they want more vitality, more energy. And it’s weird that that’s the second when you would think that should be the pyramid and that should be the top of the pyramid, or the thing that you should focus on most. But again, sex sells. People want to look their best, look good, feel good. There’s definitely an element of that. But I take a very holistic approach. I look at people’s nutrition, their training, their sleep, their hormonal balance, their supplementation, very similar to you, that functional side of look. What do you need to look at? And taking the holistic approach, and it’s something that I do I can’t believe that I get paid to do what I do like, it’s an incredible life I get to live, and I’m very grateful for it.

MARTIN: So do I need to have a gym in my house or what? What do I need to be on your fitness program?

BRIAN: It depends. So I have. I always tell people there’s three options. So our scale program, where we take groups of people, has three options. It has either body weight at home, so all you need is your body weight. We have dumbbell workouts for home, so all you need is a set of dumbbells or a gym based program. And I think some people will work with me, and I have some who never go to the gym. They’ll never and have never stepped foot in the gym.

BRIAN: They have step counts, and they have some body weight workouts they do at home. And then there’s others who love the gym. It’s their hour away, or it sets up their morning, or it’s their disconnect from work in the evening. And we have a gym program for them. So fitness is all about finding what you enjoy, what you can stick to, based on a specific goal. And then I just make it adjust and work to whatever circumstance suits the individual.

MARTIN: Straightforward, right?

BRIAN: Yeah. Like, pull ups and push ups are very underrated, Martin. They’re very underrated. Squats, push ups, and pull ups of,  we overcomplicate fitness. But for a lot of men, particularly, if you’re able to perform those movement patterns with good form and execution, you’re going to get good results.

MARTIN: You know, it’s really interesting. I mean, I’m now 71, so a lot of things are harder to come by than when I was 40 or something like that. But anyway, I decided, well, I’m going to do push ups. And I started. And holy mother, I didn’t realize just how far I let myself go. I had to use stairs to do the support, to do an incline rather than straight. So first I got three stairs, two stairs, one stair, flat. Right? And then I can now do 20 push ups straight up without really losing it.

BRIAN: And that’s it. How amazing is that, Martin? For confidence even, like and knowing that this is what you can physically do with your body and giving that confidence back to yourself from the starting progression to where you are now, that’s incredible.

MARTIN: Right. I was, as you were talking, I was thinking, you know, libido, or sexual expression, really is the consequence of having life force. And life force is the consequence of having the mitochondria working, putting out ATP. It all follows. If you screw up your food, then you’re going to screw up your mitochondria. And if you don’t use it, you lose it. This is the amazing thing that it doesn’t take much for a person to actually just start losing the capacity.

BRIAN: 100%. And it’s so, it’s such an easy habit to become negative over time when you just let your exercise slip or you let your nutrition slip or you let your sleep slip, and then you start to have these other negative issues. Libido decreases, energy decreases, you feel that general life force decreasing. And again, I always tell people, think of consistency, not intensity, when it comes to your exercise program and your nutrition. Like, what can you stick to? Because it’s considerably harder to get up and go for a run than to just keep running when you’re running. And it’s the same with any nutritional protocol, exercise plan, just keep the momentum with it.

MARTINl Yeah. Classic example of inertia. Object in motion stays in motion.

BRIAN: Yeah, Yeah.

MARTIN: It’s great, actually. I think the value of coaching here is really right in front of us here. Having a coach that serves as a reminder is just great. People who do engage in a relationship, whether it’s a group or one on one, when you’re accountable to someone, it somehow improves the odds of your outcomes, right?

BRIAN: Oh, 100%. I couldn’t be a bigger believer in it because there’s self awareness that needs to be brought here too, because I used to do bodybuilding shows, I used to do ultra marathons, I used to do endurance events, and I never needed a coach or a trainer for those because I’m quite self driven with exercise, but I have to pay my yoga instructor every single week or I will not do yoga, I will not go and do it, I won’t go to a class, I won’t do an online course, I have to show up at our house and do it, because I need that accountability from someone. So depending on different areas of your life, you might need it with nutrition, you might need it with fitness, you might need it with business, but doing that self audit to go: “Right, I’m actually not able to stick with this by myself. I think I need a coach, I need the accountability. And asking that question can be really useful.”

MARTIN: Well, how do we get people into getting the results that they deserve? What do we do here?

BRIAN: It’s interesting because the results you deserve are normally down to the work you put in. But I also tell people that if you get in your car and start randomly driving, you’re going to end up somewhere just, it might not be where you want. So you need to know first and foremost, what’s the goal you’re trying to hit. Are you trying to lose weight? Are you trying to build muscle? Are you trying to get stronger? Are you trying to increase your libido? Are you trying to increase your energy? And then if you need education around that, that’s where a coach can help. But I don’t think everyone needs a coach. Some people just need the education. You put out tremendous content on the podcast and online where people can listen to the episode on arthritis. I’ve got one of my clients who struggles with that, and I sent her the episode and talking her through it. Look, this is what you need, education.

BRIAN: You don’t need the accountability. You actually need somebody to tell you what you need to do with this and to get the results you want. It’s a combination of executing on a plan, but more importantly, executing on a plan that’s directionally correct. Meaning that it’s actually working towards the marathon or it’s working towards building muscle, or it’s working towards the competition you want to do. Because you can go into the gym, and we’ve all seen the person in the gym at some stage in our life who’s doing the same workout program they were five years ago. They come in and do 40 minutes on the cross trainer. They lift a couple of dumbbell curls, they do a couple of sit ups, and then they leave and they look exactly the same and feel exactly the same as they did six years ago. Now, if they’re coming in for a social element and other reasons, that’s totally different. But if you physically want your body to respond in a positive way, then you need to do a correct program and you need to execute on it, because then that’s the way you get the results you want.

BRIAN: Charlie Munger has a great line. The late Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner. To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. And I think physical fitness is a great representation of that.

MARTIN: Interesting. So are you saying that people should be changing up their programs, that they should not be just doing the same thing over and over

BRIAN: If they want to progress, yeah. Like with progression in fitness, normally every six to twelve weeks, you’d want to be switching up a fitness program. Every six weeks if you get bored, more so. Because what happens is similar to inertia, people get bored, they stop going, they fall out of the routine just because they didn’t enjoy it anymore. So every six weeks is normally when I would switch up a program. But every twelve weeks is when you physiologically need to switch up a program because your body would become accustomed. So switching up doesn’t mean you’re doing an entire new program. You might be just changing up the angle of a lift.

BRIAN: You might be progressively overloading, which just means you’re increasing the weight so that you’re failing in a rep range. So let’s say you’re squatting 20 pounds. After six weeks, you’re squatting 25 pounds. After twelve weeks, you’re squatting 30 pounds. That’s progressive overload. So you’re changing something so that it’s not the exact same workout, same weights all the time, because that’s how you progress with any physical exercise program.

MARTIN: I’m trying to think of some ways how I can get you to tell our audience how they can find you.

BRIAN: I try and be on everything, Martin. I literally try and communicate in every style that’s possible. I’ve written four books, three of them that have done very well. They were bestsellers. I have a podcast, which you were on, which I’m not sure which one comes out first, but I highly recommend people check that out. We had a great conversation. I’m on all the social media channels, Instagram. I put out loads of free workouts, loads of free exercise programs that people can follow, because I’m all about the business side of service.

BRIAN: So if people need a specific program designed, they’re going to come and work with me. But if you just need a generic program for losing weight, for building body fat, here’s a set of structures that you can apply, there on the website briankeanefitness.com. And again, it’s just putting out that content, trying to help in any way that we can.

MARTIN: All right, talk to me about your life as an extreme athlete. Like ultra marathon. That just makes my eyes roll to the back of my head.

BRIAN: It’s interesting because for those who can’t see me, I’m not built like an ultra marathon runner at all. I’m five foot eight, which is about 173 cm. I’m 83 kilos. So I think that’s about 183 pounds or so. I’m built like a little hobbit. I’m not built like an ultra marathon runner. I’m built like something out of the Lord of the Rings. I’m short, I’m stocky, I’m muscular, but I used to be a bodybuilder, so I competed in bodybuilding competitions, and I was a professional fitness model for years.

BRIAN: So I was on  those the magazines back in the day, on the covers, in the books, etcetera. So I did that for several years. And when I left that after my daughter was born in 2015, I was looking for a new challenge, and I signed up for my first ultramarathon, which was my first ever marathon at the time, which was called Marathon des Sables. So it’s Czechoslovakia you said you were growing up. Samarita Des Saab is in Morocco. It’s quite a well known one in Europe, it’s six back to back marathons through the Sahara desert in Morocco. And in 2018, I finished that. It was, at the time, the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in my life. And then,

MARTIN: Well, listen. Do you remember the original story of the marathon run?

BRIAN: Yeah.

MARTIN: The soldier ran from the, I don’t know, battlefield to wherever, to the town to give the warning and collapsed dead. Right?

BRIAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

MARTIN: And you did six of them in what span of time?

BRIAN: Six marathons in six days. Like an interesting story because I had to keep this post away from my mother. I remember when I posted it because Irish families, I’m really close with my mum when I went to Google. Marathon to Saab distance. You put in marathon De saab D and death comes up before distance. And it shows one of the stories of the guy that died, but also one of the runners who did the race several years ago who got lost in a sandstorm and had to cut open and drink bat’s blood to survive. He crossed over the border into another country, got picked up by the army and was. And was able to get back home.

BRIAN: And those horror stories before I went, because I had never done an ultra marathon, Martin. I was an athlete, and then I did bodybuilding and the gym is really cozy in comparison to the Sahara, so I landed out there. It was a very difficult thing. Very glad I did it. I came back from it and thought, right, I’ve done the heat. I then in 2019, signed up to run through the Arctic. So in 2019, I ran 230 km through the Arctic Circle line in the north of Sweden. And that was like running on the moon.

BRIAN: That was insane. And then I ran 100 miler in Nevada in 2020. The 1st longest run I had done in one go, it was 26 and a half hours straight through, no sleep. And then Covid came and then off the back of COVID I’ve been doing more martial arts and Muay Thai and things like that now. So changing it up slightly as we move through this world in a little bit more peaceful way than having to do the six-hour training sessions on a Monday to train for an ultra marathon.

MARTIN: Yeah. My lord. Okay, well, that suggests that. I don’t know how to put it. Well, you’re certainly resilient.

BRIAN: Learned resilience, I would say. I would say that’s an acquired skill, for sure.

MARTIN: Yeah. Okay, well, I guess that really gives you the chops to explain to anyone who’s got endurance problems how to overcome that, right?

BRIAN: Yeah, for sure. Like, endurance is such a relative term, and there’s a spectrum because endurance for one person is an ability to withstand an hour gym session or a crossfit class or the circuit training or spin session in the gym. Whereas for somebody else, an ability to run 100 miles and then everything in between, I think your starting point is important. So identifying where you are and what you need, because if you are looking to build up your endurance and just feel physically better throughout the day so that your energy and you’re not, like, getting that midday slump. I know you talk about this like that’s not a natural state. People shouldn’t be getting a slump at 03:00 p.m  in the day. That’s a sign that they’re not eating for their body type and, you know, they need to go and take the quiz that you have on the website and see what foods they need and fueling themselves the correct way.

BRIAN: And physical fitness is very similar in terms of endurance, that your starting point matters, that there’s going to be these little targets on the way, but you need to identify, well, what am I looking to achieve? Do I just want to move through the day without feeling tired? Because that’s one goal. Do you want to be able to run a marathon and recover? That’s another goal. Do you want to be able to run 100 mile marathon and be able to do it again a week later, which is a very extreme goal. And we’re really towards the high end of physical recovery from a human perspective in terms of what we can biologically do. But people do it, and it’s possible. So identifying the goal in the front is important. I think that’s for any goal, but particularly for insurance.

MARTIN: Right? I don’t know. What else do you want to share that I don’t know about you?

BRIAN: Geez, I don’t know. Martin, I think we had such a good chat on my podcast, talking all things nutrition. So again, my story from fitness model to bodybuilding, to ultra marathons, to doing what I’m doing now. Like, as I said, I’m one of those very lucky people and very grateful people that I literally do something I would do for free and get paid very well for it. I’m in a very, very positive and grateful position first, and I like the physical challenge. Like, as I said, it was a different season in my life, different phase of my life. I wouldn’t be very mentally resilient by nature. That’s not part of my makeup.

BRIAN: I had to build that over time.

MARTIN: Really? 

BRIAN: Yeah, definitely not. I was a primary school teacher before I qualified as a trainer and a coach. And during that time in my life, I was very unhappy. I didn’t like what I was doing, I didn’t like my work. I didn’t feel very highly energized, which is so interesting because we think nutrition and sleep, which are so important, are everything. But my nutrition and sleep were pretty good during that time in my life, and I still felt low energy because I was misaligned with what I should be doing in my work and in my career. And it’s amazing how it’s all holistic and all like a spider web that’s interconnected, that you need everything lined up, your people that are around you having good, energizing people, not having emotional vampires, people sucking the energy from you doing a job or at least a career that you feel some sort of calling for, a passion for.

BRIAN: And I know everyone’s circumstance is different. Not everyone can do that. They’ve got a mortgage and kids. But doing something that makes you jump out of bed every day, that might be in your personal life, but ideally something in your career, and then your health, your nutrition, your fitness, your sleep, your hormonal system, your balance, all of that. Like, I think it’s really important to connect all of those things. And what I’ve been trying to do over the last decade with content online and books and podcasts is showing people that there’s so many different ways to excel in your life and feel energized and feel vitality and feel passion. That it’s just a case of surrounding yourself with the right people, consuming the right information. Cause like, you’re literally being programmed with what you listen to.

BRIAN: So make sure that it’s good things. Don’t plant apple seeds and expect orange trees to grow is what I say in podcasts and books. You need to be consuming good information that helps you. And I’ve spent the last decade trying to build up some of that mental resilience myself because it’s not my natural state, and then just sharing how I did it, why I did it, and trying to use my story to connect with people so they can do the same if they choose to.

MARTIN: Right. Well put. You know, I can’t quite see here how having you for a coach would be very beneficial because you have so much experience in overcoming being in an unhappy place and finding your path to doing what you should be doing, what you love doing, and so on. And so anyone who’s in that place wondering, what should I be? How should I get there? What should I do? Speaking to you on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, or whatever that would be, is probably a very valuable tool.

BRIAN: Yeah, it definitely can be. You know this more than anyone, Martin, because you’re a perpetual self-learner and always educating yourself. And even before we were talking on our podcast, you were like, all right, let’s learn. I want to learn something. Tell me about things. And it’s the same here in the interview. And I think when you’re consuming the right people, whether that’s their content online or working with them directly, that can really shorten your learning curve, because smart people learn from their mistakes. The really sharp one learns from the mistakes of others, and you’re just using the tools and potential, avoiding potential pitfalls on a health journey, on a fitness journey, on a business journey, and just seeing who is around you online, offline that can potentially help get you there.

BRIAN: And I think you do this beautifully. It’s my mission as well, on my side. And again, it’s just constantly giving back. Now, when you’re in that place of gratitude because you’re so happy, you get to do what you do, which wasn’t always the case. I have the contrast point for that. It’s so much easier to give back.

MARTIN: Yeah, I acknowledge that. I have zero problem with motivation because I get out of bed, I roll out of bed wanting to do what I do. There’s no barrier. You illustrated it with your being in a job that just wasn’t aligned with what was in your heart. And, yeah, helping people find that place. I know so many people who just don’t know what they should be doing.

BRIAN: Yeah.

MARTIN: They tell me “I just don’t know”.

BRIAN: Yeah. What’s your answer for that? What do you tell them, out of curiosity? I’m curious if it’s the same as mine or if it’s similar for somebody that says, okay, Martin, I don’t know what I should be doing. What’s the advice you generally offer them, or you get them to look at?

MARTIN: Well, the literature and the experiences that you need to come up with serving others. Just try and find a place where you do something for others, because in giving to others, you will find that you’ll receive it yourself.

BRIAN: Yeah. Yeah. Beautifully said. Agreed. Yeah. I love that.

MARTIN: Love yourself. Don’t try to get the universe to give to you. And this reminded me of Jack Kennedy back in 1960. Something saying, do not ask what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for the country. Which, that was another metaphor, but essentially it is the same thing where you say, okay, I’m going to go and help somebody with something, whatever that is, and you’ll find whether that is something that you enjoy doing. And if not, pick up another one, try something else. Right.

BRIAN: Follow your curiosity. I think one of the most underutilized pieces of advice is follow your curiosity. Because when I’m working with businesses, and I’ve got two businesses, we have a Fitness LLC, which is a company, and then I have a business consulting, which is separate for health and wellness and fitness businesses. And one of the things I do with people I’m working with in that business is ask the question, what do you find easy that other people find difficult? And what are you curious about that other people aren’t curious about? You answer those two questions. They’re a very good starting point to finding your potential.

MARTIN: Yeah. That I love about you, that you actually are helping others get better at business, which, that’s awesome, because having those two perspectives is so helpful. I mean, in business, we always ask, what is the cause of this? In the medical world, people are blocked from that. They just are told, well, you have a symptom, I have a pill. Let’s take it away. That never solves anything. It’s like painting over the rust spots. Your car will rust out before you know it.

BRIAN: You start solving symptoms in business, you go out of business pretty quickly. You need to get to the root cause. And I think your physical health and your functional side as you mentioned are exactly the same.

MARTIN: Indeed. I’m out of questions.

BRIAN: That’s a good sign. Martin. I have hopefully provided a lot of value to people. Again, I think you’re doing tremendous work on your side. We had a great chat on my podcast, and I think covering the nutrition side from yours, covering the fitness side from mine, get people to look at the things that are important in their life, that it’s not a single thing. Fixing your nutrition will fix your nutritional issues. It won’t fix all your life problems, but it’ll go a long way towards helping it. You might have a problem in a relationship. You might have a problem with your work life. You might have a problem somewhere else. So don’t just look at things in isolation, because it’s all interconnected. And I think that is an important takeaway for people so that they don’t, to the man with the hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. It’s important that you know that there’s different things that fix different problems, and that’s what you’re looking to do here.

MARTIN: Yeah. Awesome. You know, just as you’re speaking, I’m reminded of the fact that we teach this, right. We have. I have these four points which I tell people it’s toxicity, malnutrition, stagnation, and trauma. Well, the big one is stagnation. I’m reminded of the fact, I read this. If exercise were a drug, it would be the most prescribed item ever.

BRIAN: Yeah, yeah. It’s so true. If you could wrap up the benefits in a pill, we’d be multi billionaires.

MARTIN: Right. But it’s not like that, right? All of these points that we’re discussing, they all are attained only by when we apply ourselves to it. It’s the dynamic interchange with the universe. You cannot be the recipient. You cannot play the victim. You have to take agency of your life. You have to become an active participant. Otherwise, it’s a fail.

BRIAN: 100%. Well, what I love about exercise, too, to build on that point, Martin, is it’s a representation for how you approach things in life. Because you can’t go into a gym and just start squatting 200 pounds. You have to start with the bar, and you have to gradually build up your strength over time. How you approach everything in your life is the same. Very few things that are worth having come to you easily, very few things that are worth having come to you in a very quick way. It’s normally built over periods of weeks, months, years, decades, and fitness is exactly the same. And I think when you can take the skill set of how you approach workouts, who do I need to help me? What’s the plan I need to follow? Where’s my starting point? What’s my end goal? What’s the milestone and mini target I’m hitting between now and that end goal so that I can stay motivated and on track. All those tools help you in other aspects of your life, with relationships, with your business, with your career.

BRIAN: And you’re just taking this domain dependent knowledge from fitness and applying it elsewhere. I think it’s a beautiful representation for how to approach life. It’s one of the reasons I love physical fitness so much. Obviously, it’s nice to look good with the shirt off and feel good and all of that, but really, it’s the skill set and the tools that you acquire that benefit your life in a positive way. That is where the real one is.

MARTIN: Yeah. And I’m being reminded of, we need to be humble enough to admit that we’re not perfect and that we could get some help.

BRIAN: Yeah. 100%. Again, we’re all, I think when you approach things from a place of service, you know that you can serve people in some areas and you need help from service from people and others. And I think that’s what makes it such a beautiful thing. Identify where you need help, who can serve you, identify who needs help and who you can serve, and just merge those two things together.

MARTIN: Yeah. I’m so glad to have met you. Really. It’s encouraging.

BRIAN: Me, too. I’m so glad we got to do this so quickly as well because we got to do two back to back podcasts, Martin. And I’m glad we will stay connected. As I said, I love what you’re doing, the work you’re doing, and I’m so glad we got to bounce on both podcasts.

MARTIN: All right, so this is Brian Keane K-e-a-n-e. And it’s Briankeanefitness.com. Go take a look. It’s very encouraging. Your life will be better for having met Brian Keane.

BRIAN: Martin, thank you so much again.

MARTIN: Yeah, this is Martin Pytela, life-enthusiast.com, by phone at 866 543 3388. Thank you.

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Podcast 485: Decluttering Trauma

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MARTIN: Hello, this is Martin Pytela. Life Enthusiast health coach for Life Enthusiast podcast. With me today, Valerie Huard.

VALERIE: Hi, Martin.

MARTIN: Hello. Pleasure. Let me try and introduce you to our audience. Valerie, like myself, lives in Canada and like myself, has a pretty deep experience with trauma, both in her own life and helping others. And I think the aspect that we’re going to explore today is valuable. Many of our audience are going through what Valerie is helping people to deal with. Let’s dive in. Welcome.

VALERIE: Awesome. Thank you. I’m really glad to be here.

MARTIN: Yeah. Valerie, I think it would be very helpful to just hear what it is that you focus on in helping people to solve in their life.

VALERIE: Yeah, I help people that have faced, unfortunately, some traumatic event. And because of that, eventually in life they started accumulating clutter. And now they are in a position where not only the trauma is blocking them, but the clutter is isolating them from inviting people at home or from doing some activity or finding some of their objects.

MARTIN: Right? So sometimes it happens because you’re just too tired and too sick to keep up, right? And it just starts accumulating all around you.

VALERIE: Yes. But it’s also because when someone had a trauma, the executive functions are affected after that. Yeah. Basically what happened is due to the fight or flight response. I think your audience already knows about the fight or flight response. After a trauma, the body needs to produce more cortisol. That’s the stress hormone in the brain. And for that the stress hormone raise, raise, raise and then slow down the frontal lobe. There is the executive function. This is where they are. So we’re talking about planning, organizing, sorting, working memory and focus. So all things that are really important to maintain a home tidy.

MARTIN: Yeah I can relate to it in a minor way. I call it my travel brain, where on the travel day I can no longer think clearly. I have to be working off of a list because the executive function, as you correctly name it, is just disconnected. I do not remember how to do things. I have to return to the list and work from that, and I have to have prepared the list on a calm day, 1 or 2 days earlier. That’s what you’re talking about, right?

VALERIE: Oh, totally. That’s what I’m talking about. It’s a really good example of that.

MARTIN: But of course, when it happens every day, then what? Right.

VALERIE: It starts to become a little bit more problematic. Let’s say somebody is working, or doing some volunteering or has some activities out of the house. The thing is, they gave 100% of themselves because most of the clients that I know, they are kind of a little bit perfectionist. You know, they really like to try and they are thriving during the day during their occupation. But when they arrive at home, it’s kind of if they almost shut down because they burn so much energy during the day to keep the executive function up to speed, that now the executive functions are kind of on a break. They have no more energy fueling them. And it’s kind of, oh, now I will pile my things instead of putting them at the right place. And it’s not because the person is lazy, it’s really because it becomes really difficult for the brain to identify where is the right place or where should I start, or how should I approach that pile?

MARTIN: Yeah, it becomes difficult to even start, right?

VALERIE: Oh, yes. A lot of people are overwhelmed at the beginning.

MARTIN: Right.

MARTIN: Well, so let’s just come back to the beginning. How did you get into learning all of this? And what I mean, you have plenty of credentials behind you and I think people would appreciate knowing just how much wisdom is packed in your life, right?

VALERIE: Yeah. Thank you. So my journey started, unfortunately, with a traumatic childhood where I got abused and growing up, I dissociated and then I became in the world of I need to perform. And then I got to study occupational therapy. That was awesome for me. I learned so much about the brain and about all of that, you know?

MARTIN: Yeah.

VALERIE: And then my trauma said, you know what? I want some attention. Here I am. Hello. And I had to take care of myself. I needed to kind of stop a little bit and really start healing myself. So I went on that journey of healing where it was difficult but wonderful at the same time, if I can say. Because I went on tons of retreats, some programs, lots of places to learn, I spent over $100,000 just to heal myself, you know? And it was a long journey because I had nobody that was able to tell me, you know what? Go that way. Because even the doctor that I met. They told me, you know what? We don’t know what to do.

MARTIN: Yeah. They don’t.

VALERIE: You will just get worse with time. And I say, oh no, I don’t want that. And it was kind of feeling unworthy almost, or feeling that the medical system was giving up on me. It was really hard at first, you know. But from there I adopted kids that have special needs. And my life continued. And one day we arrived to move and the movers company came. And the guy, I will always remember his face and his blue uniform. He looked around the house and told me, ma’am, we cannot move you. I’m calling a moving company and they’re telling me they cannot move me? What’s going on? And then he continues his sentence by, you need to let go of at least half your belongings. Half my belongings? Wow! I was wanting to cry. I was shocked. Letting go of half my belongings. You know, I grew up in an environment where the more you possess the better status you have in life. 

MARTIN: Yes. We need stuff.

VALERIE: Exactly. And from there, we had three months to declutter before the move. We were not able to do that. So after the three months, my husband had to move first and I stayed behind with the kids to declutter. And the first night when he left. Oh my God, I fell in tears sitting in front of our storage room. And I hadn’t cried for many, many years before that. It was kind of, I was always going, doing the things. But then I connected with the emotion. And that was the moment where I was really starting to raise. So what I mean by that is when I start touching the belongings to really declutter the belongings bring me an emotion, because the sense of touch is linked to the limbic system in the brain. And then I was discovering the emotion progressively of that object. Remind me of these things. Or oh, I was happy when I got that. Or oh, I was sad when that happened. And a couple weeks after I realized I was not just smiling like, I was feeling it, and I was not needing a nap anymore in the afternoon. I was more energized and I was feeling better and my flashbacks were reducing. And all of these kinds of benefits with decluttering the belongings. So we were finally able to reunite the family and I decided that I wanted to help other people. So I did a course in home staging because we were military and we were moving often, you know.

MARTIN: Okay.

VALERIE: And then I realized, oh my God, people are able to place a pillow there or a blanket there, or remove a frame. That’s not a problem. Problem they have is to declutter before doing that.

MARTIN: Yes.

MARTIN: So it involves removing all of the,

VALERIE: Exactly.

MARTIN: I’m just looking behind myself here on my bookshelf and I’m thinking, okay,I’m mostly not very cluttered, but I have been hanging on to books. I want to read that book again. I probably never will.

VALERIE: Exactly.

MARTIN: But it represents something for me, right? It represents the memory of reading it.

VALERIE: Yes, but the knowledge. You already got it. Even if you let go of the book, the knowledge is in you.

MARTIN: True, but I haven’t let go of the book.

VALERIE: I know. At some point we were having 9 or 10 bookshelves full of books. Now we don’t have enough. We have less than one.

MARTIN: Right.

VALERIE: So I then specialized in professional organizing. You know, when we go to people’s home and help people declutter their home.

MARTIN: Yeah.

VALERIE: And very fast, I realized that most of my clients were opening to me about their trauma when I was decluttering with them.

MARTIN: Yeah.

VALERIE: Probably because I suffered myself. So I was approachable on that. And then I specialized even more. I did some studies and we did some research. We contacted researchers about the brain and things like that, to really realize that there’s a link between clutter and trauma.

MARTIN: Aha. Right.

VALERIE: That link that I explained to you at the beginning with unresolved trauma.

MARTIN: Unresolved connection to an object. And it’s holding us in bondage, right?

VALERIE: Yes, exactly. And as long as the executive functions are not able to kick in, people won’t be able to declutter. It will be like a pendulum. They let go of clutter. It comes back. They let go. It comes back. They declutter a countertop. It comes back.

MARTIN: So as a professional organizer, you are actually having to serve as an emotional coach or I don’t know, what would you call that?

VALERIE: I often search how to call me. The best way I found was trauma and decluttering coach.

MARTIN: Yes. Makes sense. Now, as I’m looking at my own self and my own problems, I’m just thinking, oh dear, this is going to be a very, very prevalent issue in the population. Right.

VALERIE: It is, it is. And people don’t want to talk about it because both trauma and clutter are too taboo.

MARTIN: True enough. I mean, you started out by saying that in your childhood, you experienced serious abuse, right?

VALERIE: Yeah.

MARTIN: I mean, my heart goes out to you. This is just.

VALERIE: Thank you.

MARTIN: A child that gets abused is just so. It’s such a betrayal.

VALERIE: It is. It is.

MARTIN: Okay. So you need to deal with that. And that’s not a small thing.

VALERIE: No it’s not. It’s not, but it’s possible. And there’s a way out. I helped hundreds of clients that were really able to move forward and create a happy life in a tidy home.

MARTIN: Yeah. I want to celebrate the personal victory. For you. And then what you bring to clients.

VALERIE: Yeah. Thank you.

MARTIN: Right? Like you’re actually able to hold them up with the emotion that you have experienced in yourself.

VALERIE: Yeah. With that. And I also did a trauma certificate to get even more knowledge and be able to support them more.

MARTIN: All right. So in practical terms, I can just see how much help you would be to someone who’s realizing that their emotional trouble is connected directly to their physical environment. Right?

VALERIE: Yeah.

MARTIN: And what is the process? How does it  work for you when engaging with the client?

VALERIE: At the beginning, they don’t necessarily realize that they are connected. They realize that there’s some clutter and they feel overwhelmed, and they’re kind of paralyzed when they arrive to start decluttering. This is how they realize. And then when they connect with us, we explain to them that there’s a link with the trauma that is unresolved, and from there we bring them on a holistic decluttering journey. We put that stuff down. That’s our books. And in it there’s the dual method. And the dual method is really simple. There’s four steps everybody needs to pass through the four steps.

MARTIN: Okay. Let’s describe that.

VALERIE: Yeah. The very first step is to reduce the stress because as the cortisol is too high, the stress is too high and the executive function is slowed down. So when we decrease the stress the executive functions kick in. And I can see that easily when it’s not in a blood test, you know. But it will be when clients arrive on a call and they say, you know what, Valerie? Today I went to the mail and I right away discarded what I didn’t need. And. Sort what I decided to keep. That was awesome. I didn’t pile it on the countertop. Or they say, oh, I did my laundry and folded my clothes right away. So things like that that the people know they want to do. But with the executive function paralyzed or slowed down, they’re not able to do them. So they pile up. So that’s the very first step.

MARTIN: So reduce stress. And sometimes that will be difficult because you need to be making yourself safe in the environment, safe in your relationships and so on. Right.

VALERIE: Yep. And then we can tackle the mindset. So I call it the letting go mindset. That’s really, really important because people are now able to make decisions about to keep or not an item. But often they keep that one just in case. And maybe and what if and just in case and maybe and what if in that pile in the middle becomes the biggest pile?

MARTIN: Yeah.

VALERIE: So we want people to be able to be aligned with themselves to know what they want. To know their value. To know where they’re going in life. And for that, we talk about different subjects like emotion, authenticity, relationships, lots of different subjects that will help the people at the end of the day say, yes, I will really use that. Or you know what, this one? I don’t think so. If I need it again, I’ll find another one.

MARTIN: Yeah. That’s the victory, right?

VALERIE: That’s a huge victory. And after mindset we tackled time. I call it “discover free time.”

MARTIN: Okay.

VALERIE: Because what happened is lots of people have difficulty sleeping. So we look at routines and habits, not just about sleeping. That’s an example. But they will get more energized if their sleep is better and they will be able to obtain better and declutter easier. But we also look at our morning routine. How to get started in the day at some decluttering routine, all of that. But the basics is really that lots of people, they have too many things in their calendars that they’re freaking out, sorry for the word. Or, they’re sometimes on the couch scrolling and scrolling and scrolling, knowing that they have things to do and not able to do them because they don’t know where to look to do their things. So there’s a little bit of time management in there as well.

MARTIN: Mhm.

VALERIE: It’s an organizing skill. And not everybody learned it or was able to pass on the paper way to manage it to the online way or the phone way.

MARTIN: Right. Gosh, this gets complicated in many ways.

VALERIE: Yeah. And then we pass to the one that everybody is waiting for. It is “simplify your living space.” Now we have all the strategy we need to be able to declutter and maintain it.

MARTIN: Right.

VALERIE: The other things that we often forget is if we declutter too fast, it will come back. You know those big shows they do on TV? Sensational TV.

MARTIN: Like sensational weight loss and sensational this.

VALERIE: Yeah, the hoarders show and things like that. You know, they declutter so fast. It’s another trauma for these folks. And people just gather stuff afterwards unfortunately, because it’s not the way to do it..

MARTIN: Wow. Okay. I can just relate how if you don’t process the emotion that goes with letting go of the item, if you just throw it away, you’ll go back and you pull it back out of the garbage can, right?

VALERIE: Oh yeah. Like, you cannot imagine how often what I did is, I put things in a box and there’s a giveaway at the curb. So you put it in the box at the curb with free sign on it, and you sit on the couch in the living room and you’re looking through the window.

MARTIN: I think I need it. I think I need that.

VALERIE: Someone is picking it. Oh, and then you, the people left, and you go grab the box, put it in the garage just in case. I did that. 

MARTIN: It will come handy. I cannot go without it.

VALERIE: Yeah.

MARTIN: Yeah. I can just see that. Oh, okay. So that’s straightforward. So the process is, it’s good to know that you have it structured, that you understand the steps and what you need to do. Because in many, especially in coaching, you need to have a plan you need to know,

VALERIE: Oh definitely.

MARTIN: Things need to happen before and after. It’s really important to have antecedents and understand how the process works. So how do people interact with you? Is this done one on one or is this done in group sessions? How does it work?

VALERIE: We have group sessions. So basically I have a platform that we call the Doers Academy. And in there, there’s some video that people are following and they can ask questions and things like that. And we suggest people to really not binge watch them because we want the subconscious to sink the information. Right. That’s one part of the program. Then we have meetings, and we have meetings almost every day except Sunday. It doesn’t mean that people need to be there every day, but it means that there’s a safety net if they’re processing something and they need support. And we have meetings on the four different steps that I explained. We have meetings on decluttering together, putting some music on and having fun together. Decluttering. We have different activities. Oh yes, people love that.

MARTIN: So it becomes a team effort.

VALERIE: It becomes a team effort. Yes.

MARTIN: That’s good. Yeah. because when people are finally willing to let a guest, even if it’s just on a video, but when you’re willing to let the guest come into your room and see the mess. Right?.

VALERIE: Yeah. At the beginning, lots of the clients on the call are either closing their video or putting a fake background or a blurry background. And progressively they will come with their own background. And it’s beautiful to see the transformation happening because my program is a year long. Because it needs time to change habits and paradigms.

MARTIN: Yes I agree.

VALERIE: And there’s so much to change when people have been suffering from trauma.

MARTIN: Right on. Okay. Well, this explains it rather well, Valerie. Where will people be able to connect with you?

VALERIE: Yeah, we have a website. It’s DowellHT.com. People can get on there. There’s a little bubble at the bottom of the website. They can click on it and start chatting with us. Or they can send an email in the contact to us. There’s really multiple places. I’m on Facebook as well.

MARTIN: Okay, great. So this is almost as good as any other movement, right? Any other movement that liberates us from dependencies, that helps us reach our full potential. Because what you’re describing is really blocking an expression of an intellect and of a creative person and so on, all that. So we have.

VALERIE: Oh yeah it’s a huge transformation. 

MARTIN: We have all this human potential locked up essentially in trauma. Right?

VALERIE: Yeah. And people are so creative and they want to do their piece of heart or creating music or writing that they want to do. And they’re blocked, right? 

MARTIN: You need to have time, right?

VALERIE: You need to have time and they’re blocked because, oh, I must be decluttering right now. Or where is that journal that I put somewhere or where is that piece of fabric.

MARTIN: Right. And so you spent two hours looking for the thing.

VALERIE: Yeah.

MARTIN: Mhm. Yes. This is so uplifting to me because of course I recognize it in me, I recognize it in other people. And it’s great to be able to connect with just knowing that you’re there. But for those who really need it, I’m just so encouraged to be able to introduce you to the audience that we have here at Life Enthusiast.

VALERIE: Yeah, thank you so much. I’ll make a link for people with the notes so they can contact us directly.

VALERIE: All right. Valerie Huard and DowellHT.com

VALERIE: Like home transformation.

MARTIN: Home transformation and human transformation at the same time.

VALERIE: And holistic transformation. Yes.

MARTIN: As well. That’s great.

MARTIN: Valerie, thank you very much. This is Martin Pytela at Life Enthusiast podcast. Life-enthusiast.com. Thank you.

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Podcast 484:  Lung Repairs with Alvectin

On today’s podcast, Spencer Feldman from Remedy Link joins Martin to explore the crucial subject of lung health. Discover how environmental pollutants, microplastics, and toxins impact your lungs. Learn about Alvectin, a cutting-edge product designed to detox the lungs and support lung surfactant proteins to enhance respiratory function.

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MARTIN: Hello there everyone! Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast with me today, Spencer Feldman. Spencer is relentless. He has come up with more inventions. And today we’re going to talk about your lungs. Spencer Feldman from RemedyLink. Welcome.

SPENCER: Hey, how’s it going, Martin?

MARTIN: Oh, it’s going all right for me.

SPENCER: Okay, so let’s talk about lungs. I’ve been researching the human body now for about 30 years. And one of the things that I find when I do analyses of people’s bodies and try to figure out what was going on for them is, by and large, almost everybody had lung damage. It was to the point where I almost started ignoring it because it was everybody. Every time I looked at someone’s free radical load, the lungs are the ones are the most damaged. 

MARTIN: I have a thought on that. Industrial revolution. Burning of coal. Burning of wood. Forest fires. Cars. Industrial pollution.

SPENCER: Yeah. I mean, most humans live in cities and by highways. And if you ever are in the country driving towards a city, you’ll see a brown dome over the city. So, if you live in a city or near a highway, it’s like smoking a couple packs of cigarettes a day. There are some parts of the world where it’s like smoking a pack or two a day, just going outside and breathing. So, yes, there’s all the particulate matter. Well, let me back up. 

I didn’t know, I never really found a great way to support lungs. Yes, spirulina for some reason seemed to be beneficial in lungs. But I think that was more quenching the free radical damage and not so much clearing out the actual toxins. And so it was always in the back of my mind. I thought that one of these days, if I ever figure out how to clean out the lungs, that would really be great. So now there’s another issue. 

Then there’s microplastics, right? Because the amount of microplastics is just absurd. There’s so many tons of this stuff. And it breaks down and gets finer and finer and finer and it gets into the atmosphere. So we’re all breathing microplastics in all the time. There’s like, what, 400 million tons of plastic made around the world each year that ends up in landfills. And it keeps breaking down from the sun and goes airborne. So, I’ve always been wondering: how could we clean out the lungs? And so the first thing we could talk about is this microparticulates.

SPENCER: Right. So the ability to remove a particulate depends on the size of the particulate and its electrical charge. Mucus in the lungs is negatively charged. So if what comes in is positively charged, which it often is, it can stick to the mucus. And also, if it’s relatively large, it can get stuck to the mucus. And then what happens is there’s these little finger-like projections called cilia that rhythmically move the mucus up and out of the lungs at about a quarter to half an inch a minute. And it kind of vibrates at around ten cycles per second. And then you swallow it and now it goes into the toilet. That’s assuming that you have proper mucus function, which requires bicarbonates, which is another conversation. But let’s assume you do for now. 

So the larger particles don’t tend, they tend to get stuck in the mucus. If they’re neutral, they don’t get stuck in it so much as dissolved in it. But either way, they come out. The question really is, what about the really tiny ones? And so at the very end of the lungs or the center of the lungs, like after you breathe it and it goes all the way down to the place where the gases are being exchanged, they exchange in a place called alveoli. And you have 400 million, or at least you start with.

MARTIN: Think of tiny little caves like a sponge.

SPENCER: Tiny little sacks. 400 million of these little sacs called alveoli. And that’s eventually where the oxygen and the carbon dioxide exchange in the lungs. And we don’t have mucus or cilia in these tiny little sacs. How could we? They’re so small. And if mucus gets in there, you couldn’t breathe. So the problem is, how do the alveoli get detoxed? Because if you breathe in really, really tiny microparticles like smoking cigarettes or you drive a lot and you’re breathing in the exhaust and the brake pad particulate or you’re in a city or the microplastics, some of that gets into the alveoli. How do you get rid of it? Okay. 

To get rid of stuff out of the alveoli, we rely on our white blood cells. And they can try to digest the particles. But they’re not digesting plastic. They’re meant to digest infections. 

MARTIN: Also, I’m also thinking of the famous asbestos. The tiny needles o silicates of some sort.

SPENCER: Yeah, there’s a lot of things in glass fragments that get in. So the first thing is you could try to have the white blood cells digest them. They can’t digest them. They can try to push them into the lymphatics and then get them out the lymph, or they can try to shove them out of the alveoli and pass them on to the mucus and the cilia to push them out. But regardless of how the white blood cells get rid of the particulate, they first have to know that they’re there. So they have to get tagged. And this is done with special proteins called lung surfactant proteins. And what they do is they tag these particles and they stick them together in little clumps. So the white blood cells can then find them. And they kind of put them into little garbage bags. Get them all together. And then the white blood cells either push them out of the alveoli or into the lymph. So that’s one way in which we clear that out. That is really pretty much the main particulate. Volatile organic compounds are certainly toxic, but they’ll typically come out. Or you can bind to them with glutathione.

And it’s great to do glutathione nebulization every once in a while if your lungs are a little challenged. But the third thing is, what about infections like viruses and stuff? So, the white blood cells also try to kill the infections and move them out, and they also have to get tagged. There’s these two lung surfactants, and this is a lung surfactant A and D. And they’re associated with this kind of defense and cleaning process, pulling this junk out. Now the other thing is, there is another aspect of the lungs that have to be dealt with and that’s water in the lungs. So think of it this way. Let’s say you pour a little bit of water on your countertop in your kitchen, and then you put a pot on top of it with a flat bottom. If you try to pull the pot up, it’s kind of stuck there, right? 

MARTIN: There’s the, what do you call it? Surface tension. Yeah. Surface effects somehow. 

SPENCER: Yes. Well, why is that happening? Right. It’s not like water is sticky, but water has this property called surface tension. It likes to stick to it. Water doesn’t stick to other things, but it does stick to itself. And so when you pull it up, it tries to separate from itself. It doesn’t want to. And so it’s hard to pull it up. Well, the same thing happens in the lungs. If there’s any water in the lungs what happens is the alveoli, every time you breathe in, the alveoli have to expand a little bit. And when you breathe out they contract a little bit. Well, if there’s water in the lungs, it’s hard for them to expand. For the same reason, it’s hard to pull a pot off of a wet counter. The water is sticking to itself and it resists. So this is why near drowning and drowning is so dangerous. It’s because if water gets into the lungs, it makes it very hard for the alveoli to expand. And that’s why even a little bit of water on the lungs is a problem.

MARTIN: So this actually also reminded me of the problem with cytokine storm, where all of a sudden you have the infection and the immune system goes overdrive, and you have too much inflammatory response in the lungs, and all of a sudden there’s a whole lot of fluids and you’re drowning.

SPENCER: So the way the body keeps fluids from building up is with two different lung surfactants called B and C. And what they do is they push the water out of the alveoli. And that’s one of the reasons why, if you breathe on a cold day and you see fog in your breath, that’s your lung surfactants busy at work, pushing water out of your lungs. So now the challenge is, as we get older and as we’re exposed to toxins, the levels of our surfactants decrease. So over time, the people start to lose their lung function. And what you can do is we can put up some videos if you want. I’ll send them to you so you can edit these in. We will definitely link that. Alright. So if you take a look at these pictures on the screen now, you can see that on the images on the left, you see lungs that have some darkness in them. That’s water from people that have gone through near drowning experiences. And on the right hand side, you can see that those dark spots have diminished to a great degree. That’s after they were given lung surfactants. So you can see the lung surfactants are actually great for near drowning. And it’s something that’s actually being done more and more in emergency rooms.

MARTIN: Okay. Awesome. So if you’ve had long term water on the lungs then the surfactant will help to bring you closer to back to normal, right?

SPENCER: Another aspect of this is there are some safe and effective decisions people have made that are specifically destroying the parts of the lungs that make lung surfactants.

MARTIN: And so we are actually less efficient at making the stuff that will keep us well.

SPENCER: Right. There are some infections out there that will damage the body’s ability to make lung surfactants. Which means now, not only can’t the body go after the infection in the lungs, but there’s less, as the water builds up from inflammation, it can’t clear the water. So, the goal would be, from my perspective, what can we do to support lung surfactants? 

We have a product called Alvectin, which has a proprietary yeast extract which may support the body in healthy lung surfactant levels. And when might you want to work on lung surfactants is a great question. So let’s go over who might consider this. 

Anybody who’s ever been a smoker. Anybody who is maybe living right next to a highway or drives for a living or lives in a very polluted city, that’s something you could consider. Anybody who has either a chronic or an active infection that seems to be getting them in the respiratory centers. They could consider something to support their lung surfactants. 

Also, if you look at your blood test, if your CO2 level is 29 or more, it should be 27. And once it gets to 29, that’s indicating that the body is having a buildup of carbon dioxide. And typically the way that could happen would be the alveoli are damaged or there’s not enough of them left, and the body is not able to get rid of as much carbon dioxide as it wants to. So a CO2 level above 27 is an indication that somebody might want to start supporting their lung function.

MARTIN: Alright. Yeah, I recall so well, my father, a smoker, would spend the first hour of every morning hacking, just trying to bring out all the stuff that came in the day before. And it was quite interesting. And now listen to this, I have moved to a new area. I have moved into a more industrialized, urbanized place and I now have more coughing issues than I’ve had when I lived in a better environment.

SPENCER: Yeah. When lungs get damaged, when the alveoli fail, it’s not the kind of thing that typically gets recovered. It’s really something you want to protect. You don’t want to lose alveoli as you age, and you want to protect the ones you have. Being able to get carbon dioxide out and bring oxygen in, it’s fundamental to how healthy you’re going to be and what your experience of having a body is going to be like.

So, I got to say, I was looking for something to support lung surfactants for 20 years, and I’d kind of given up on it, Martin. I was like, okay, it’s just not going to happen. They do make lung surfactants for premature delivery babies. But you need a prescription, and it’s incredibly expensive. And I thought, God, is there any way to support this in adults? And when I found out that there was, I was really excited. So if I either feel like I’ve been exposed to something either particulate matter, like maybe it’s smoke season, or maybe I’m in a car with someone who’s coughing and they’ve got a cold, whether it’s particulate or whether it’s infectious. That’s my signal. Okay, you know what? Let’s boost my, let’s see if I can support my lung surfactant levels a little bit right now. Maybe now’s a good time for that.

MARTIN: All right, so how do you administer this? Is it capsules?

SPENCER: Oh yeah. It’s a liposomal capsule. So it’s pretty easy.

MARTIN: So, take one. Take two. How do you do it?

SPENCER: Right. I mean, the stuff is harmless. So you could take lots of it. I mean, I’ve taken tablespoons. But basically the idea would be based on body weight. You could do 1 or 2 a day if you’re thinking, hey, I’m just going to do a lung detox. Or if you thought, wow, I think I’m coming down with something, what can I do to support my lungs right now? You could consider, I’ve taken as much as 2 to 3 capsules an hour for a little while. Just if I felt like I was at a risk to,

MARTIN: Every hour for the next 12.

SPENCER: Yeah, that’s what I’ve done for myself.

MARTIN: 24 capsules in the next 12 hours.

SPENCER: That’s what I’ve done when I thought I might be coming down with something.

MARTIN: All right. Okay. So this is like a rapid, let’s just strengthen the entire inner works from the nose in.

SPENCER: Well, most specifically, we’re looking at the alveoli. Now, having said that, if a person’s lung surfactant system improves, there’s no reason that it wouldn’t. Even though lung surfactants are primarily in the lungs, the ability to tag infections can happen anywhere. So it is possible that if you support your lung surfactants, that you could have a global improvement, regardless of where the body might be challenged at the moment.

MARTIN: All right. This is really good. I think this pretty much completes this introduction of Alvectin. It’s super exciting because it’s natural. You say it comes from yeast, actually, but it’s not going to give people Candida. Don’t be afraid of yeast. And here we are. Does it need to be refrigerated?

SPENCER: Does it need to be? No. Having said that, everything lasts longer in the fridge. I would say I would like it to be refrigerated. Anytime you’re dealing with small molecules that, um, where the shape of something is very important. So what does it mean for something to be colder versus hotter? The hotter a thing is, the more it vibrates. That’s what heat is. It’s a measurement of the vibration of something, how much it’s wiggling at a molecular level. And so if you have something that’s a relatively complex molecule, you don’t want it to wiggle too much because eventually it will break. Right. So when you have complex molecules, have them wiggle less and they’ll last longer. That’s not something you have to worry about for say something like, vitamin C. That’s very simple. But if you have something that’s a complex protein, then you would be well advised to keep it as cool as possible.

MARTIN: All right, Spencer, thank you for introducing Alvectin. This is awesome. So think: lungs, lung health. If you’re coughing, if you’re challenged by respiratory problems.

SPENCER: Well, I wouldn’t focus on the negative. I would say focusing on the positive. If you would like to support excellent lung health, then consider how to support your lung surfactant proteins.

MARTIN: Awesome. This has been Spencer Feldman from Remedy Link. Martin Pytela, life-enthusiast.com by phone at (866) 543-3388. Thank you.

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Podcast 483: Feral Cells

In this episode, we examine the concept of feral tissue, exploring its fundamental triggers—Short Chain Fatty Acids, Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors, and pH imbalance. We discuss Spencer Feldman’s innovative, research-oriented protocol aimed at addressing feral tissue growth through a comprehensive 6-step program. This protocol includes products designed to repair the microbiome with short chain fatty acids and lactic acid. As well as products to shift pH balance. It also employs a trophoblast program using pancreatic enzymes and electrons. While promising, these methods are currently unproven and intended solely for research purposes. They are not medical advice, nor have they been proven safe or effective.

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MARTIN: Well, hello, it’s Martin Pytela. Life Enthusiast podcast. And with me Spencer Feldman Remedy Link Chief Formulator. Today we have a topic that is big. In the sense that a lot of people end up with very tragic health outcomes when they mismanage what we’re going to talk about today. Anyway, Spencer, let’s see how we can frame it without getting into trouble and stepping on toes of the people who are censoring us.

SPENCER: Right. Okay, so let’s start by saying that neither Martin nor I are physicians, and nothing we’re saying in this video should be construed as medical advice or for the treatment or diagnosis or therapy for any disease. Right. Now, having said that, we can also have intelligent conversations as free and sovereign human beings who are responsible for our own health.

MARTIN: Yeah, we can talk about physiology. We can educate about nutrition. We can educate about how things work in the body. We’re not promising that we are going to cure or remove or mitigate or whatever, any health condition. But we can talk to you about how health is built.

SPENCER: Having said that, as of pre-COVID days, one out of three people died of growths in their body.

MARTIN: Runaway cells.

SPENCER: Runaway cells. Tissue growing in ways we don’t want. Since vaccination, those numbers have increased. Some of them have. Sometimes people will go from diagnosis to death within one month. I suspect that in the decades to follow, it’ll be closer to 50, 60 or 70% of people will find that the end of their life is a result of growths in their body they don’t want. 

MARTIN: And post mRNA technology people now have this turbo version of this stuff going.

SPENCER: The term I’m going to use for this video is called Feral tissue. F-e-r -a-l. Now I’m using that word very specifically. And let me give you a way of, the reason is because the word that’s typically used has a lot of baggage associated with it. A lot of fear, a lot of scientific baggage. That word when someone hears it, they could feel that their body has betrayed them, is fighting them, is hurting them. It’s out to get them, that it’s an evil and malignant entity. And I think that’s the wrong way to think about our bodies. 

MARTIN: Yeah, let me just put it in my thoughts. The feral or feral or feral has to do with something that previously was civilized has gone wild. Think of it in that way.

SPENCER: So let’s say you have a family dog, a German shepherd, for instance. Right. And it’s a great dog and loves you and protects you and protects your family. But you weren’t properly trained on what it is to be a dog owner, and you don’t feed it for a month straight. Well, then at the end of the month, you hear a ruckus at three in the morning, you go outside and there’s your German Shepherd pinning down a chicken in your chicken coop that he broke into, and he’s about to eat it. Well, you go over there and you scold the dog and you try to take the chicken away, and he snarls at you, he may even bite you. Well, whose fault is that? It’s not the fault of the dog. It’s the fault of the owner who didn’t understand that you have to feed your dog. So, you could shoot the dog right then and there, but that would be violent and wasteful. You could poison the dog. Okay. Or you could go back inside and go get some raw hamburger meat and some bacon and a raw egg and put it in a bowl and bring it out and put it in front of your German shepherd. That went feral and went wild. And the dog might look at you and the chicken and the bowl of food and think for a second, and then sit down and gobble down all that food you made for it. Then lick your hand and go to sleep by your feet. You have now recovered your family dog. It is no longer feral. Right. That’s what we want to do with growths in the body. This was originally us and it went feral. It went a little wild and it doesn’t want to be wild. It’s just doing that, I believe, because we didn’t understand what it needed. So let’s back up. And what I want to show you Martin, if you’ll cue that logo now. Yeah.

MARTIN: I’m going to have on screen the logo. It has three circles and a bunch of words around it.

SPENCER: Right. So this logo is, let me pull it up here so I can look at it with you. Okay. So this logo is from the website feraltissue.com that will go into much more detail on the model that I’m presenting. And I want to express that this is a theoretical model at this point. We will have more information in a few months as we go through our first trials. Right now this is theoretical, but I’m going to present it to you because I think that there’s value to it, if only from a peer review perspective of opening up conversation. But also this may well be the model that is able to help a lot of people. So let’s talk about the model. 

On the logo, you see three circles and seven terms around. And the term at the bottom is good health. That’s where we want to be. That’s where we start. And at the end of the journey, that’s where we want to come back to. And then each of those three circles represents a trigger event, something that triggers the body into becoming feral or tissue thereof. The first one is SFCA, that’s a short chain fatty acids. And it’s brown because to remind us that that’s the color of stool, you need a healthy microbiome to make short chain fatty acids. And the other two we will get to that’s the AHR and the pH. We’ll get to those in a minute.

And then these six phrases around the, as you go around the circle, these are the various programs that the body, I believe, activates as a result of these insults, these mistakes that we’ve made. So the goal is to reverse these six programs, and we do that by addressing the programs directly, but by also dealing with the three causes in the middle that started them all. So let us start with the first one, and that would be short chain fatty acids. 

The microbiome, your gut, if it’s healthy, will make good short chain fatty acids including lactate, butyrate, propionate, acetate, valerate. These are all things that are very good for our health, and they control an enormous amount of our functioning. Now, you’ve heard of the term epigenetic. That’s the way of saying that, hey, genes are one thing, but the genes have to be turned on or off by things in our environment. And it is these epigenetic triggers that are as important as your genes, because a person can have terrible genes, but if they’re not activated epigenetically, that’s fine. And a person can have great genes, but if they’re not activated properly, then they don’t function properly. Even a good gene operated improperly is a bad outcome.

MARTIN: Yeah, you could start as a strong person and live a bad life and you’ll have bad outcomes. You can start as a weak person, but if you live well, you’re going to actually end up living a better quality of life than the person with great gifts who has abused them.

SPENCER: So let’s talk about what happens then. If the person doesn’t have enough short chain fatty acids because like most of us, they’ve taken antibiotics and glyphosate pesticides in their food and chlorinated water and so forth and so on. The body has less short chain fatty acids. Now, what the short chain fatty acids are supposed to do is they’re supposed to go on to these receptors that take them into the cell, and then they are there to interface with the nucleus and the DNA and give instructions to the DNA. Now, I want you to imagine that you’re a fisherman. Imagine a fisherman who needs to feed his family with five fish a day. He’s got a bunch of kids, and so he goes out to his favorite fish fishing spot every day, and he catches his five fish and feeds his family. Well, one day he goes out there, and then there’s only four fish and then three fish, then two fish. And now he’s down to one fish a day and his family’s getting hungry. So the next time he goes out, he dives off his boat and he looks around underwater and he goes, wow, there’s just not a lot of fish here. There are some fish, but not many.

SPENCER: So he goes back home and thinks about it. Makes four more fishing poles. Goes out the next day, puts all five fishing poles out in his boat, and now he’s getting some more fish. And it’s fun, right? So the fish in this analogy are the short chain fatty acids, and the fishing poles are the receptors that will pull in the short chain fatty acids into them, into the nucleus. Now, what the body will do when it doesn’t have enough of a particular ingredient that it needs, is to increase the number of fishing poles or increase the number of receptors. So that takes us to the first program, a receptor upregulation. It’s making more receptors to try to grab what it needs in an environment that is deficient. And so the indigo colored circle has the letters A, H, R. That stands for ARYL hydrocarbon receptor. That’s the receptors that we’ll be bringing in the short chain fatty acids. So let me tell you a story about a scientific mistake that happened 50 odd years ago that set us on the path of why I think feral tissue is still not resolved, medically speaking.

MARTIN: Well, it’s misunderstood because the genetic seduction happened, right? 

SPENCER: So two things happened. I mean, more than two of them.

MARTIN: Yeah. Right.

SPENCER: So back in the 70s, somebody found a new receptor in the body that would bind to dioxin, which is the chemical in Agent Orange. Incredibly toxic for the body. And they said, okay, this binds to dioxin. We’ll call this a hydrocarbon receptor, because dioxin is a hydrocarbon. Well, that’s stupid because God didn’t give us a hydrocarbon receptor, right? The first exposure of hydrocarbons for humans was maybe 800 AD in China, with the first oil well dug. Before that, we didn’t have hydrocarbons. So why would we evolve a receptor for hydrocarbons? Well, it was lazy. It was scientifically lazy. What they should have done is say, hey, this receptor is binding to hydrocarbons. Let’s find out what it’s really for. And they might have found out it’s for short chain fatty acids, but they called it a hydrocarbon receptor. And then they said, wow. This hydrocarbon, when it attaches to this hydrocarbon receptor, causes growths in the body that can kill people, causes feral tissue. And so everybody starts looking for toxins, like hydrocarbons that will cause that. Now, the other thing they found with feral tissue is there’s a lot of genetic damage. And everybody said, oh, look, there’s 50,000 genes that are screwy in people that have feral tissue. Certainly, somewhere something in there must be the key. There must be some gene that’s doing it. Okay, so these are the two errors. The idea that genetics are causing this, I think, is backwards. I don’t think that the genes are causing feral tissue. I think the feral tissue is causing the damage to the genes, and so they’re looking in the wrong place. Yeah.

MARTIN: Exactly right. This is the epigenetic explanation of what’s really going on.

SPENCER: Right. Now, that’s not to say that there aren’t some genetic mutations that make people more likely to have feral tissue, but more likely to if the short chain fatty acids aren’t there. More likely, if the toxins are there, it still requires some trigger, right? It’s a predisposition, but it still requires a trigger. So the first thing I would say is it’s not necessarily genetic. And the proof for this would be a landmark study that was done where they took the nucleus of a feral cell and put it in a healthy cell. And the healthy cell did not become feral.

MARTIN: Yeah,. You’re now discussing Thomas Seyfried and his research and he’s proven that this whole thing is a metabolic problem, not a genetic problem.

SPENCER: Right. And the other part of that study is they took a normal nucleus and put it in a cell that was feral, and it stayed feral because it wasn’t the DNA that was running the show for the feral issue, it was the environment the cell was in. 

MARTIN: And just to illustrate, I want to illustrate it so clearly, when you have an aquarium in which you are seeing sick fish, you don’t treat the fish, you change the water.

SPENCER: Yeah. Great point, great one. So because we’ve been looking at genetics as a prime mover rather than a secondary effect, And because we’ve been looking at hydrocarbons rather than because we’ve been calling these receptors hydrocarbon receptors rather than what they really are, which is short chain fatty acid receptors which can bind to hydrocarbons. The last 50 years, research went, in my opinion, down a very unfruitful path. 

MARTIN: Oh, totally. We’ve wasted billions of dollars. Sorry to keep interrupting. We’ve wasted billions of billions of dollars in the war on that. That is just so unfruitful.

SPENCER: Well, and hundreds and hundreds of millions of people have died.

MARTIN: Oh, yeah. We saved no one. 

SPENCER: So with all those extra hydrocarbon receptors, it’s just a vacuum sucking in these toxic metabolites of virus fungi, bacteria and parasites and these toxic chemicals that are causing feral tissue. So the first thing, one other thing to understand is this isn’t theory. 20% of all feral tissues are associated with viruses like Epstein-Barr, Cytomegalovirus, herpes virus that a lot of us are carrying. So, the spike protein Covid, actually hijacks the hydrocarbon receptor. It’s why it accelerates feral tissue so aggressively. So what do we want to do? Well, the first thing we want to do is at the very bottom, is we want to increase the short chain fatty acids. We can do that immediately by actually taking short chain fatty acids. We have a short chain fatty acid product called Phylamet. But also long term we want to recover the microbiome. And you know we’ve got protocols for that. But that’s not necessarily going to be enough once this process is started. So the next thing we need to do is deal with the hydrocarbon receptors. So the reason it is indigo-colored is because the ingredient that I think we should use for the hydrocarbon receptors is an extract of the indigo plant. Now, dioxin, for instance, has an incredibly strong bond to the hydrocarbon receptor.

SPENCER: It’s got like a, I don’t know, like a five-day half-life, something like that. You need to displace it. So what we want to do is we want to knock the toxins off the hydrocarbon receptors so they can’t cause problems. And then we want to pull them out and detoxify them. But to knock them off, you need something with a stronger bond than the toxin itself. And dioxin has an incredibly strong bond to this. So the one thing, the only thing I found that will actually make a stronger bond to the hydrocarbon receptor than some of these toxins is the indigo extract. And thankfully it’s nontoxic. So we have a product called Receptimet that has an indigo extract in it that I like. And what I want to do is I want to clean off the receptors, and I want to kind of seal them up temporarily so that while we’re pulling these toxins out of the body, while we’re working on supporting the immune system, to have the body deal with the viruses and fungi and bacteria and parasites, that those metabolites don’t hijack our hydrocarbon receptor systems. So I want to pull them. So, that’s the indigo color.

SPENCER: Well, I would actually say it’s more active than passive, right? I would say that these are actually little arms sticking out of the cells, grabbing and pulling things in. So all those receptors are actively looking for short chain fatty acids. They’re hungry for them. They want them and they grab on to what they think is short chain fatty acid. And it turns out it’s a toxic chemical. Some instructions by a bacteria or virus or a fungi to tell the DNA to stand, to tell the DNA, to tell the immune system to stand down. So it’s not so much it’s an opening in the cells. They’re actively being pulled in. So what we want to do is imagine you’ve got all these little hands pulling in all these toxins. What you want to do is you want to go and kind of knock the toxin off the hand and then put something else in that hand to keep it busy so it doesn’t do it again. And that’s what I like to use in indigo extracts for.

MARTIN: Awesome.

SPENCER: And when I looked up these indigo extracts in medicine, guess what I found. They’ve been used for thousands of years for guess what? Feral tissue. So I wasn’t the first person to figure this out. I was just the first person to figure out how it’s happening, right? We understood verbally for thousands of years that, hey, this works. They use it in Chinese medicine for feral tissue. They just didn’t have the biochemical sophistication at the cellular level a thousand years ago to understand why it was working, but they figured it out. God bless them. 

Okay, so this takes us now to the next of the programs, which is fermentation. So let’s say that we didn’t fix the microbiome. The short chain fatty acids are deficient. And now the hydrocarbon receptors are increasing. And that’s still not enough. The body says I still even though I’ve made all these extra receptors, I’m still not getting enough short chain fatty acids, but I really need them. So here’s my theory. My theory is that the body will then get or shift some cells from their normal function to actually making short chain fatty acids, that it’ll make some cells in the body ferment like the microbiome. Now, if you look at the work of Otto Warburg and you ask, what Otto Warburg said about feral tissue is he said, these are fermenting cells. Well, what’s the end product of fermentation? Well, in the gut, the end product of fermentation is short chain fatty acids. Now, what are the,

MARTIN: Lactic acid more often than anything else. Right?

SPENCER: Well, lactic acid is the one we’ve looked at. So let’s talk about that. So feral tissue has a lot of strange behavior that doesn’t make sense unless you are outside of this model. One thing is, it makes a lot of lactic acid or lactate. But that’s a very inefficient way to make energy. It’s like 16 times less efficient in making energy. And so people say, well, feral tissue is stupid. It’s bad. It’s dysfunctional because it’s not making energy properly. And if you look at it from the model of that tissue is designed to make energy. You’re right. It’s not very efficient, which is why it has to run 10 to 100 times faster. However, if you look at it from the model of it’s trying to make short chain fatty acids for you, it’s wonderfully efficient. So it’s very good from that perspective that it’s doing right. So the question is, do you think the body is stupid? If you think it’s stupid, then it’s making a mistake and very inefficient. But if you think it’s smart and it’s doing it on purpose for what it thinks is a temporary scenario, it thinks, hey, maybe the person got injured and you know, the caveman got bitten by a saber tooth tiger and isn’t eating food for 2 or 3 weeks by the fireside while he recovers.

SPENCER: That person’s not going to get food to make short chain fatty acids.  The body does short term things that have long term consequences because it, I’m not going to say the body is omnipotent. It’s very intelligent. But it does have this flaw that sometimes it will do things in the short term that will have a long term consequence. Now from the intelligence of the body, if you’re 20 and it gets you to live to 40 before you die, or 30 before you die, and you get to have a bunch of kids, that’s success. Your genes have passed on, right? Your DNA is fine with you having a lot of kids that you have at 20 raise till they’re old enough to be on their own and they’re 30, and then you pass away. So if we say, well, the body is stupid, it’s making these short term benefits for long term problems. Yeah. But from its perspective it only wants it only cares if you make it to 40. Right. Anything after that? Well, maybe you’re out of the gene pool at that point. You’ve already passed it on. So even to say,

SPENCER: It’s still not stupid. It’s doing what it wants from its perspective of passing on its genetics. It’s just not doing what we want for, say, living to 80 and good health. So okay, so now we’ve got these cells that are making lots of lactate. Well, what about the other short chain fatty acids? Acetate, propionate, butyrate. That’s an hour long conversation that if you go to feral tissue com there’s a video that shows the biochemistry about how all the mechanics and enzymes of making all those other short chain fatty acids are increased in feral tissue. Let’s just say that you know that science is there, whether it’ll be proven out at peer review levels, we don’t know. But there is definitely some good scientific justification for suggesting that feral tissue is there primarily to make short chain fatty acids.

MARTIN: So I guess the bottom line for me is let’s not be so simplistic as to think that it’s some kind of a mistake that makes lactic acid by accident.

SPENCER: Yeah, yeah. Or any of the other short chain fatty acids. Right. All right. And some people will say, oh, well, lactic acid increases feral tissue. Well, there is a study that said, okay, is it the lactic acid or is it the acid. And what they did is they added lactic acid and some buffer agents. So it wasn’t acidic anymore. It was neutral to some feral tissue. And the feral tissue started behaving normally. So actually short chain fatty acids seem to have an anti feral tissue effect, but it’s the acids that caused the problem. So why does that happen? So think about where acids are meant to be formed. Short chain fatty acids are meant to be formed in the large intestine. And the large intestine has several defenses against this. One is every four days the cells of the large intestine will slough off and go out into the feces that’s there so that they won’t become feral, because if you leave a cell around acid long enough, it can become feral, it can become damaged. So it’ll slough off. But one of the first, the other thing is it creates a lot of mucus as a protection. And we’re going to get to both of those. But one of the first things that happens, first things that happens, the green pH circle, it starts dropping the pH in the area. Now feral tissue is interesting. It’s actually alkaline on the inside and acid on the outside.

SPENCER: And again that’s not something we can necessarily get into at this point in this video. I would watch the other videos for that. But the green circle with the pH is there to tell us that it’s pH. That’s the final driver of the worst of the problems. And the green color is there because if you check your urine, you want the pH paper to turn green, which suggests that you’re alkaline enough. So that’s what that color stands for. So the first thing that happens when tissue gets damaged is stem cells are recruited to repair tissue. Now, if you look at feral tissue, it de-differentiates. It doesn’t look like the tissue it started. If it starts as breast cells, it doesn’t look like feral tissue in the breast. Doesn’t look like a breast anymore. Feral tissues in the lung doesn’t look like lungs anymore, and the prostate doesn’t look like a prostate. It differentiates. It’s becoming more and more like a stem cell. Well, okay. That’s how injuries are repaired. The body takes normal cells and pushes them back towards stem cells. That differentiates them. So the beginning process of feral tissue is a healing process. It’s the creation of stem cells. And the problem is that those stem cells can’t heal the injury caused by the acids that are building up in the tissue. So the body is trying, but it doesn’t really have the capacity to do that. 

MARTIN: This is an interesting point here because there are some other scientists that talk about electricity. Doctor Tennant came up with that, and he’s showing that cells to repair themselves correctly need to be in an alkaline environment. Right. So we’ll talk about 50 millivolts and all that.

SPENCER: Yeah. We’ll talk about the voltage in about another ten minutes.

SPENCER: So the stem cell part of this program is actually a healing response of the body. So the fermentation, and all of these things, the upregulation is the body trying to deal with short chain fatty acids, the fermentation, the lack of short chain fatty acids, the stem cell aspect and dealing with the injury. So the next thing that happens is mucus is produced or mucus. Feral cells have a lot of mucus in them. And well, where in the body do you find mucus? A lot of it you find in the large intestine as a protection against acids, or in the stomach as a protection against stomach acids. So the mucus is explained by this. So then the next thing that happens is sloughing. Now in the large intestine, when the cells are about four days old, they slough off so they don’t get damaged so that the damage they’ve incurred from the short chain fatty acids doesn’t cause them to become problematic. Where does a cell sluff off if it’s in the breast or the prostate? It can’t go anywhere. Well, actually it can, and it can leave and go into the blood vessels of the lymph and set up shop somewhere else. So sloughing is a process of the escape of those cells to other parts of the body.

MARTIN: I guess proliferation would be the word for that?

SPENCER: So the last program we’re going to get is called the trophoblast program. And that becomes a part of the placenta. Now, in animals other than humans that have an egg yolk sac. Reptiles and birds, part of the placenta actually leaves and goes to become the egg yolk. And it does the same for humans. But since we don’t make egg yolks, it then decides to come back and on its way back, it passes through all the tissue and tries to make its way back to the genital crest and into the ovaries and the testes. Because those are germ cells, but not all of them make the return journey. And it’s these kinds of lost trophoblastic cells that we believe are the seeds for future feral tissue. So we all have these seeds in us, places where a couple of hundred of these cells throughout the body that didn’t make it back. And these are the ones that I believe are recruited by the body to make short chain fatty acids for us because they’re stem cells. They’re they’re pluripotent. They can become anything.

SPENCER: So they said, okay, well become this. All right. So let’s take a look at some very interesting equivalence between the trophoblast or the placenta and feral tissue. Both grow very quickly. They both can exist in an environment of low oxygen and high carbon dioxide. They both have high blood, accelerated blood vessel growth. They both lack contact inhibition. That is, they don’t stop growing when they touch each other. So let’s say I get a paper cut. Well, the cells on either side of the paper cut are going to grow until they meet in the middle. And then when they touch each other, that’s contact inhibition. They say, okay, I should stop growing now. Placenta and feral cells don’t do that. They keep growing. Both have limited Krebs cell activity and make lactic acid. They both create the pregnancy hormone hCG, which triggers progesterone, which then stimulates migration and evasive behavior. You can actually test for feral tissue with a pregnancy hormone. So that’s telling you that there’s something going on between pregnancy placentas and feral tissue, right? They both produce enzymes that allow them to invade other tissue. In the case of placenta, it’s invading the uterine wall to kind of anchor in. So these are very similar tissues. 

MARTIN: Yeah. I have visualized it for myself as the placenta is really a foreign body. The baby is a foreign piece of foreign tissue inside of the womb. And so normally the immune system should attack it and destroy it. So it needs some kind of a signaling system that tells the immune system, yes, I am strange and foreign, but leave me alone.

SPENCER: Right? And it also needs messages going to the placenta to keep it from doing… What happens is that right about day 56 [of gestation], the placenta gets a signal to stop being aggressive. It stops invading. It stops making new blood vessels. It starts acting like normal tissue because if it didn’t and in some women it doesn’t. And then that’s deadly. It would keep growing and just take over the mother and kill her. And that does happen for some in some rare cases. So what is it that happens at day 56 that tells the placenta, stop acting like this.  That phase is over. Now it’s time for you to kind of become normal tissue again. And so what happens is at day 56, what we have is the creation of certain enzymes, certain pancreatic enzymes in the fetus. Now why would the fetus need pancreatic enzymes. It’s not digesting food. It’s not eating anything. It’s getting it all from the umbilical cord. It turns out that these pancreatic enzymes are the enzymes that trigger the placenta to become normal tissue again. And so there was a famous Doctor Beard who said, hey, I think he was an embryologist. He studied the process and he said, hey, I’m seeing a lot of correlations, a lot of equivalences between placenta and feral tissue. And he was the one that figured out what happened on day 56. So he started injecting people with pancreas extracts that had these enzymes in them and getting a lot of great results.

SPENCER: He was followed by Doctor Kelley and then Doctor Gonzalez. The FDA made injections of pancreatic tissue illegal, and so they had to go and make supplements. And here’s what ended up happening. The enzymes that Doctor Kelly sorry, Doctor Beard was originally using were in a precursor form. Right. So the enzymes were trypsinogen and chymotrypsinogen. And the ogen part at the end means they haven’t been activated yet. And what happens is those were getting in the blood and they would go to the site of the federal tissue, and then they would get activated at the site of the feral tissue, just like what happens in the placenta. And they were triggering the placenta, the feral tissue to calm down, to stop doing that kind of behavior. But when they stopped allowing that injection, people had to take it orally. And when you take it orally, what happens is the stomach converts it into the active form, the trypsinogen becomes trypsin, the chymotrypsinogen becomes chymotrypsin. And some of that happens in the small intestine. And so now we’ve got the wrong form. It still works, but not as well. And that’s why I believe people like Gonzalez were telling other people who are using that kind of protocol to take 150 to 200 capsules a day, because they were getting the wrong form.

MARTIN: Right. Yeah, the quantity had to be just right. Yeah.

SPENCER: Right. So when you see a protocol that takes enormous quantities of something, that should be a sign that maybe someone hasn’t figured out the absorption or hasn’t got the formula just right. So what I did is I looked at this and I said, well, what we really want are the trypsinogen, the chymotrypsinogen, the precursor forms. It’d be great to inject them, but we can’t do that. And if I give it to somebody orally, it’s going to shift the form. So what we did is we made it as a liposomal so that it’s protected from the stomach, and it opens up in the small intestine, and then the actual original form gets delivered. So this is.

MARTIN: This actually is genius. Really. You know, thank you. Don’t don’t just underestimate how big a leap in scientific thinking this is.

SPENCER: Thank you. So, the product is called Pancremet. And the idea is we’re trying to recreate what Doctor Beard, and then I think Doctor Kelly did it for a little while before he was shut down, was doing with these. We’re trying to recreate the original form and what we want to do is we want to give the same trigger to the feral tissue that they were giving, the same trigger that the fetus gives the placenta at day 56.

MARTIN: Right. It’s like me saying, okay, mommy, I have finished the growth phase of this initial. Now we’re going to go into this other mode, right?

SPENCER: Yeah, exactly. So If we take a look at these six programs, what we want to do is reverse them. Right? So what can we do about the trophoblast program? Well, perhaps, precursor pancreatic enzymes. What can we do about the sloughing and the mucus and the stem cells? Well, that’s all because of the pH, right? It also happens that the same pancreatic enzymes also tend to break down mucus, which is important when you’re dealing with feral tissue because you want to, the mucus can keep the acids from leaving and the supplements you’re trying to give from getting in. So we want to break that mucus sheath down. So we have actually have access to that tissue, which is something I don’t normally talk about, but that’s another way that plays in. So we want to shift the pH. Now, normally the person who did most of the work on pH with feral tissue was Doctor Simoncini. He’s no longer with us, but his daughter Minerva is carrying the torch. When I spoke to Doctor Simoncini, what I found out was that they were doing injections of sodium bicarbonate.

MARTIN: Yeah. It was direct delivery into the tissue.

SPENCER: As close as possible. And they were getting tremendous results. But and again, we know this clinically that if you change the pH at the tissue, you change the behavior of the feral tissue, it becomes normalized. However, they didn’t get good results if it had already become metastatic, or if a person had already done chemo or some other forms. And well, you know, that’s a lot of people. So that’s why you don’t just focus on one part of the equation. You don’t just say, oh, we’re just going to work on pH, or we’re just going to work on detox, or we’re just going to work on enzymes. You have to take it as a whole. So, I’m very grateful for the time that Doctor Simoncini gave me to help me understand this. 

So the first thing I was doing was I was actually subcutaneously injecting sodium bicarbonate into my lymphatic region. And that’s a great thing to do. And if you know how to do it or you don’t, I’ll walk you through it. But the other thing you can do is you can take baths with sodium bicarbonate. But the easiest thing to do is we make a product called Bicarbamet, which is the bicarbonates and a time release delay method, so that it doesn’t wipe out your stomach acids, and it opens up in the small intestine where it should be. But pH would be very important.

SPENCER: You could look at our Bicarbamet product. I could walk somebody through how they could do some subcutaneous injections if they wanted to do that. And you could also take two cups in a hot bath of baking soda. And what you want to do is you want to see your urine pH get up to around 7.5. If you’ve got a urine pH of 7.5, you now have a surplus of alkalinity. You don’t just want to get to the place that a healthy person should be, which is 6.5. You want to take it so high that you’re just flooded with alkaline. And the nice thing about the sodium bicarbonates in when you’re dealing with feral tissue is they tend to accumulate right at the feral tissue. And again, this is because this is not something trying to kill you. This is not something trying to hurt you or outsmart you. If you give it what it wants, it will work with you. It will pull in the short-chain fatty acids. It will pull in the bicarbonates. Right. This is the dog that wants to protect the family. It’s not looking to hurt your chicken and bite your hand. We have to stop this idea that this is something that we have to go to war with. This is something that we have to coordinate with and understand. Now, yes, there are some cells that may be so feral that they have to be killed.

SPENCER: And that’s a job for a functioning immune system. But I believe the mass majority are ones that we can recover. Okay. So now we go back. That’s a stem cell. We get to the fermentation. So we got the shifting of the pH. We’re moving backwards. We’re down regulating the hydrocarbon receptors. We’re blocking the receptors. Maybe we’re also going in there and pulling out some chemicals and some metals. We make products Xeneplex and Medicardium, if you want to support the body and deal with detox. And then we’re going to go back even further and we’re going to say, well, what started the whole thing? And my opinion is it was originally started at the microbiome level as a shortage of short-chain fatty acids. There’s one other thing we can do. You did mention the work of Doctor Tennant and he has done some brilliant work. And he brought to everyone’s attention that normal cells have a much higher voltage than feral cells and also placental fetal cells. Also very low voltage, actually, surprisingly, fast dividing cells. And so some people will say, well, we should go out and get electrically grounded. We should walk barefoot. And that’s all well and good. And I think it’s a fine idea. I don’t have the ability to spend my days walking barefoot in the forest and on the beach,

MARTIN: The climate doesn’t support it.

SPENCER: Yeah. And I spend most of my time doing research. So I needed a way to get an electrical charge. And maybe you saw this band that I’m wearing. So we have two electrical charging devices. We make the clinical version that goes up to 18,000V. Don’t be spooked by the number. It’s not the volts that are dangerous. It’s the amperage. It’s at very low amperage. And then that’s very high voltage. You could support the body in breaking down crystals. That’s a whole other ball of wax inside the tissue. But we also make the one I’m wearing at the moment, which is a portable charger which does 300V, which is about twice what you’d get walking barefoot on the beach. And so that’s like being grounded 24/7, or as long as you’re wearing it, you don’t have to plug in anywhere you can walk. You could be in your car. You could be doing anything. And the studies on mice, what they did is they did these studies where they gave mice some tumors and then they stripped them of their electrons. They put something like a carpet that the mice would have to crawl under as they moved around. Because synthetic materials strip electrons off our body and the tumors grew really, really quickly. So we know that the speed of which a tumor grows is directly related to the voltage that is applied to it. So although it’s not listed on this particular map, on this system, voltage is an important part of it. It’s not something that, it’s just not part of the process by which the body is reacting. The body, I don’t think, is lowering voltage. It’s more like a third-order effect, but it’s still something that we should address.

MARTIN: Well, I would like to just throw in this bit, which is, it’s the electrons. The electron is donated when you are grounding and the lack of electron is also known as oxidation. Oxidative stress. So when you’re donating these electrons, you’re repairing the deficit that you may have created through your lifestyle.

SPENCER: And so one way to think about it is you could buy a lot of antioxidants, to try to donate electrons. And what the antioxidants do is they are the transport mechanism for an electron. But once they donate their electron, what do they do? So you still need to have the electron. So let’s say you have a city and it needs to have trucks come in to bring food. If all you do is have the trucks come in with one load of food and you don’t refill the truck, that truck can’t keep bringing in food. If there’s no more food that goes in the truck. Better that your city has half the number of trucks, but they keep filling up with food, then having lots and lots of trucks that only take one, that only do one delivery. So the Earth is the ultimate antioxidant. The electrons come off the solar wind from the sun, hit the atmosphere, transfer to the Earth by lightning strikes, and then we suck it up through our feet. If we walk barefoot into our bodies, through the meridians, which then transport it to our cells. And you don’t need as many antioxidants which are the trucks to transport the electrons if you’re loaded with electrons in the first place. So if you’re out there buying lots and lots of antioxidants, you don’t need so many. What you really need is the electrons that they’re meant to transport.

MARTIN: So hug trees and get an Electron Charger.

SPENCER: Yeah. Go out for a walk barefoot in the forest if it’s a nice day or by the beach. 

MARTIN: Okay. So have you gone full circle all around?

SPENCER: I think we’ve gone the whole way back. Right? So we reverse it.

MARTIN: One thing I wanted to mention is, of course, the oxygen. Right. The pH is inversely proportional to how much oxygen the body fluid will carry. So when we were talking about pH and relationship to oxygen and how the cell will or will not respirate, we need to be aware of the fact that the more acid the body fluid is, the less capable of carrying oxygen it is. That’s why this pH of above seven is so important.

SPENCER: So to summarize this from a protocol perspective, going backwards through the programs. At the trophoblast program level, you could consider the Pancremet product which contains the precursor forms of the pancreas enzymes and a liposomal form. At the pH level, you could consider our Bicarbamet product that has the bicarbonates that open up at the small intestine. At the AHR, the aryl hydrocarbon receptor level, you could consider the Receptimet product that contains the indigo extract and moving down to the short-chain fatty acids, you could consider Phylamet, Pokegeshi and Panaceum to support the body in working towards a healthy microbiome.

MARTIN: Right.

SPENCER: Again, this is a model. This is theoretical. This is something that I would do. I’m not saying this is something that you should do or something you should do instead of doing something else. It’s just something to consider and hopefully in time, we’ll have enough peer reviewed study of this model to see if it’s something that can be of benefit to humanity.

MARTIN: Yeah, someday this may become medical mainstream. Right now it’s not. All right. Well, Spencer Feldman, wonderful amount of research and inventiveness in helping the body and the immune system in functioning correctly. I think this is a breakthrough for me. Anyway, thank you for listening. This is Spencer Feldman. Remedylink. And Martin Pytela. Life-enthusiast.com by phone at (866) 543-3388. Thank you.

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Podcast 482: pH Balance

On today’s episode, we’ll explore how our bodies manage acids through critical metabolic pathways. Our metabolism constantly produces acids, mainly hydrogen ions (H+) and carbon dioxide (CO2). We can breathe out CO2, but H+ needs to be either combined with CO2 with bicarbonate or removed through urine using phosphate and glutamine/ammonium pathways.  Join Martin and Spencer as they discuss these metabolic pathways, their health implications, and a new way to support your body’s naturally acidic systems with Bicarbamet.

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MARTIN: Well, hello there. This is Martin Pytela at Life Enthusiast podcast. And with me today, Spencer Feldman. Spencer is the CEO at Remedy Link. And Spencer, wouldn’t you believe it, has found a way to dive into the most persistent problem we have faced, which is the pH balance, acidosis, alkalosis, knowing where we are and working on it. But there’s so much to it. I would rather have Spencer kind of dive into it. But the main point that I want to make is when your pH balance is off, your mineral stores are affected and your mineral stores are in your bones. So if you’re suffering with thinning bones, you may have an issue with pH balance.

MARTIN: And this talk will probably interest you a lot. Spencer, what do you think?

SPENCER: Hey, Martin, I have got a lot to share about pH, so here we go. Okay. So it’s one of the things you hear in the alternative medical spheres is, oh, you should be more alkaline and kind of, right? You don’t want to be completely alkaline. You need stomach acid to break down proteins and sterilize the foods you eat. You want the colon to be acidic to make good short chain fatty acids. But yes, as a general rule, we are too acidic.

MARTIN: Let me just butt in here before you get in. Because this is my metabolic typing hat. We know that there are some people who wake up overly alkaline. Over-alkalinity is represented in your emotional world as dark moods, unmotivated, procrastinating, and even depressed.

SPENCER: I wouldn’t agree with that. I’ve seen plenty of people that are, I see plenty of people that have great metabolic acidity with the same symptoms.

MARTIN: I know that when we have acidity, people are short tempered, anxious, ragey, easy to anger, that sort of thing. Now, if you see them swinging back and forth, that would be because their meals are affecting them. I promise you that if you’re an oxidizer, you’ll be alkalized by fats, and if you’re autonomic, you’ll be alkalized by carbohydrates on your plate, in your food. And this will swing.

SPENCER: Okay.

MARTIN: Anyway, the main point is, what’s your overall situation? Right?

SPENCER: So as a general rule, if you check most people’s pH and through their urine and saliva pH, I’ll tell you a bit about that later. Almost everybody I find is acid. And the people that look like they’re alkaline, it’s a false alkalinity because they’re getting ammonia from an infection with a background of acidity that the ammonia is masking, but that’s a little more complex and we’ll get there in a minute. First, let’s start at the beginning, which is 50,000 years ago. So upper Paleolithic Stone Age humanity was eating roughly 87% alkaline food. Well, what does that mean? What does it mean that a food is alkaline? Well, the first thing we did when we tried to figure this out is people would burn food and take a look at the ash. And if the ash was primarily sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium, the alkaline elements, they said that’s an alkaline food. And if the ash was primarily iron, sulfur, iodine, and chloride, then they said that’s an acid food.

SPENCER: Okay, that’s a good rough sense of it. But then we got a little more sophisticated and realized some foods that are acidic have an alkaline effect on the body, like acetates, citrates, and so forth and so on. So what we really want is to know, at the end of the day, after you eat a particular food, does it make you more or less alkaline, more or less acidic and how much? And we’re pretty good at that now. And as a general rule, all fruits, with the exception of plums, figs, dates, and a couple of others, are alkaline forming. And all vegetables, with the exception of some of the oxalate things like chard and spinach, are also alkaline. And then all animal products mostly are acid forming, as are grains and beans, with the exception of, I think, oats, quinoa, wild rice and lentils.

MARTIN: Okay, I would really like to butt in here with, this is described as an autonomic person would see it. If your dominance is autonomic, then you will react exactly like this.

SPENCER: Okay.

MARTIN: And if you’re an oxidizer, you will have a different reaction, I promise. Go on.

SPENCER: Okay, so we are not eating like the upper paleolithic. We’re not eating 87% of our foods as alkaline forming. You know, there’s this idea that hunter gatherers were wildly successful in eating meat all day long. If you actually go to the few hunter gatherer cultures that still exist on the planet, maybe every three days they get meat. They’re not successful on every hunt. So 87% sounds about right. So unfortunately, we eat the other way. We eat 87% acidic. Now, the body has an ability to get rid of acids, right? So acids in the most fundamental form is of protons, a hydrogen proton, that’s an acid. That’s the most simple acid.

MARTIN: You mean like H+?

SPENCER: Yeah. And so we can get rid of acids in a number of different ways. One thing we can do is we can exhale CO2. That’s a form of release of acids. And then the other thing is we can push hydrogen out of the body. Using some of the alkaline elements, like sodium and potassium. And then you can also have bicarbonate. And the bicarbonate, when it meets up with an acid, gets neutralized, and then it can be removed from the body.

MARTIN: Yeah, I mean, the bicarbonate is the quickest way to take CO2, carbonic acid, combine them, and now you go from acidity to alkalinity.

SPENCER: Right. So the body uses bicarbonates as the main way to buffer acids.

MARTIN: Right.

SPENCER: And bicarbonates do a number of things. I mean, there’s some very fascinating things it does. Are you familiar with phase four water and the work of Pollock, doctor, Pollock?

MARTIN: Yeah, we talk about it a lot. Exclusion Zone, or water that has been unclustered, declustered, energy removed. So it actually doesn’t stick together.

SPENCER: Right. That requires bicarbonate for that to happen. Another thing that people don’t realize is mucus itself, which the body has lots of mucus in it. And it’s not a bad thing. Right. You need some mucus for the lungs to clean themselves out. You need mucus for the microbiome to live. It fluffs out a thousand fold in the presence of bicarbonate.

SPENCER: So a bicarbonate deficiency, the mucus shrinks down a thousand fold. And then the lungs can’t clean themselves properly. And the gut isn’t all that healthy. Bicarbonate does a lot of stuff. So one thing we talked about is it neutralizes acids. Another thing it does is the small intestine is supposed to be alkaline. So bicarbonate is actually secreted in the bile and in the pancreatic enzymes, in the juice of the pancreas into the small intestine to neutralize stomach acid.

SPENCER: So the bicarbonate that comes there actually keeps the stomach acid from burning the rest of the small intestine and neutralizes it. But it also activates all the enzymes. All the digestive enzymes in the small intestine have to be in an alkaline environment to work. Enzymes are very pH dependent. So an enzyme that works 100% at a pH of say, 7.5, which is mildly alkaline, might only work at 10% at a pH of 6, which is a little acid.

MARTIN: Right. So it will do nothing in your stomach, it will do its work in your small intestine.

SPENCER: Right. So we have people that will take digestive enzymes by the handful, hoping to improve their digestion. But they don’t realize that if their small intestine isn’t alkaline, those enzymes won’t do anything or do very little, maybe 10%. So there’s also an enzyme in the small intestine called intestinal alkaline phosphatase. And what that does is it actually binds to lipopolysaccharides and helps with the health of the small intestine. So if someone, listen to the name of it, intestinal alkaline phosphatase, it has to be alkaline for it to work. So again, if the small intestines aren’t alkaline, then what happens is we not only don’t digest food properly, but we lose the protection against SIBO and other things. So it’s pretty important to keep the body alkaline.

So first thing is, well, how would you know if you need it? Well, if you have access to a blood test, you can look at your CO2 levels. And what CO2 actually is on a blood test, it’s not really a measurement of CO2, it is a measurement of your bicarbonate, which is the main way that CO2 is bound in the blood.

MARTIN: Meaning that if you don’t have enough carbonates, your CO2 will go up?

SPENCER: It goes down. So low bicarbonates means you have low CO2, which means your bicarbonate stores are down. But if your CO2 is high, that’s really more an issue of the lungs not being able to, the alveoli starting to fail. And then you’re looking for a lung detox. But barring having a blood test, you can go get some 6 to 8 pH paper or 5.5 to 8 pH paper. And you can check your pH levels with your urine and your saliva.

SPENCER: Now, your urine represents the acids coming out of you and your saliva represents your bicarbonate store, your reserves.

MARTIN: Right.

SPENCER: So easy to check your urine first thing in the morning. You just pee on it, shake off the excess pee and look at the color pretty quick. And the pH paper changes color. And based on a little chart, it’ll say, oh, it’s this color. So it’s this pH.

MARTIN: Right.

SPENCER: You really want, optimal is 6.5. But I think anything 6 and above is fine. If you’re getting below six, that’s a lot of acids your body’s having to dump.

MARTIN: Dumping acids like it’s out of style.

SPENCER: Right. And eventually, the body won’t be able to do that anymore. Right. There’s only so much you can ask of the kidneys. So the other thing is you could check your saliva. And the way you do that is first thing in the morning, before you brush your teeth, you rinse your mouth out with some water and then spit it out, and then kind of gnaw on your tongue a little bit until it’s into a little bit of saliva comes. And check that, i should be 6.8. Yeah.

MARTIN: This is an important point. If you start thinking about food, your enzymes in your mouth will change, your saliva will change. So you need to actually be quite conscious doing this, because if you, for example, check your saliva just before breakfast or after breakfast, it’s going to be all over the map. You need to actually really do this as described here.

SPENCER: Right. But if you’re not sure, you could do it several times during the day, you’ll see it move around. What you want is you want to see that the saliva never goes below 6.8. And what they found in studies is a saliva of 6.6, which is just a little bit acid, has increased the risk of metabolic syndrome, and that would be insulin resistance, high blood pressure, obesity, high triglycerides, low HDLs, and things like that. So if you see that your urine is dropping below 6 or your saliva is 6.6 or lower, that’s an indication that your body is getting more acid than it can handle. And now, how might this play out? Well, there’s this tissue inside the body called connective tissue, and it’s a packing material between all the cells. It’s actually the only thing that touches a cell.

SPENCER: Blood vessels don’t touch cells. Nerves don’t touch cells. Capillaries don’t touch cells. The connective tissue is what surrounds every cell in the body, and all the nerves go through it, and all the blood vessels and capillaries go through it. And what happens is the capillaries irrigate the connective tissue, they leak slightly, so they’re irrigating, and all the nutrition goes into there. And then the connective tissue says, okay, this can pass and this can’t. If it’s something it doesn’t like, it’ll hold onto it. So it’s another filtering mechanism.

SPENCER: And if it fits something it wants to pass on to the cells, it will. And then the cells use it in their function, whether it’s sugar or lipids or proteins. And then the cells have a waste product, so they release their waste products back into the connective tissue, and then from there into the lymphatics, and then it leaves the body. So that’s how that whole system works. So it’s really important that your connective tissue is happy. And it’s a very ancient system. It predates almost every other system in the body. Now, a lot of people think that we can’t store water soluble materials, that you can store fat soluble materials in the liver and the fat, but not water.

SPENCER: Well, the connective tissue stores water soluble materials. So it’s actually also a storage system. So it’s a filter, it’s a storage system, it’s protection. And one of the things it can do is it can store extra toxins. So if there’s a lot of acids, because the person is eating very acidic food, and their kidneys are finally unable to keep up with it, and they’re not getting enough bicarbs, then these acids go into the connective tissue. Now, remember, I said bicarbs are in the fourth phase of water. This is one of the reasons why juicing vegetables is so good for you.

SPENCER: Not only are you getting the alkaline elements, sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, which help push out the acids out of the kidneys, but you’re also getting bicarbonates as the fourth phase of water in the juice, which helps you exhale it out as well. So, great if you can drink vegetable juice. But most people are getting more acids than their body can deal with. And so the connective tissue starts storing it. And, you know, it’s not a good long term phenomenon. Now, have you ever done, like, survival training where you made cordage or made yarn by spinning together threads?

MARTIN: Yeah, in my youth. Yes, of course, the boy scout days.

SPENCER: Yeah. Yeah. So if you want to make rope or you want to make yarn, you basically spin together fibers and they get stronger, and then you twist those stronger fibers together, and each time it gets bigger and bigger and eventually you have a rope. So our body does it all the time, and that’s what tendons and ligaments are. And so we’re making tendons and ligaments by spinning together connective tissue fibers, however, they attach to each other with something called a hydrogen bond. And if there’s already lots of hydrogen there in the connective tissue, because that’s what acid is, it’s hydrogen. Then, instead of the connective tissue bonding to other connective tissue, it bonds to the hydrogen.

SPENCER: And then the spitting of these fibers doesn’t work very well, and we make weak fibers. Now, if you’re over 40 years old, you may have the experience of hurting yourself for no good reason. You know, you pulled your back, you twisted something. You twisted a knee. And it’s not like you had any fun doing it. It’s not like you were out playing racquetball or hiking. You just walked and turned slowly, and something ripped. And then you thought to yourself, wow, I’m getting old.

SPENCER: How did I hurt myself, just from walking? Or maybe you’re, like, sleeping in bed. And you turn and you’re like, oh, you turned a little funny, and you ripped something. How does that happen? That wouldn’t happen when you were young. Well, what happens is the acids are building up, and the binding capacity of the tendons and ligaments is weakening so that you’re getting these frays, these very weak connective tissue, ligaments and tendons. And then it just tears with the littlest bit of pressure. So one aspect of aging gracefully is getting the acids out of the connective tissue so that our tendons and ligaments are strong and we can move about without hurting ourselves and comfortably and with strength. As an example of this, take a look at the skin of a 90 year old person. It’s fragile and it’s transparent and it’s thin.

SPENCER: Why is that? Well, skin is the connective tissue you can see. So you’re seeing the effective acids on the connective tissue for 90 years. And even though that’s what you can see, that’s actually what’s happening inside. The connective tissue inside the body looks just like the skin on the outside.

MARTIN: It’s frail and weak, fragile.

SPENCER: Right. So what we want to do is we want to protect our connective tissue so that it’s strong and healthy and vibrant. And also because it can function to protect the cells. And so to do that, we want to remove the acids. And bicarbonate is the chemical reaction that neutralizes acids and lets you get rid of them in the body.

MARTIN: Yeah, I’m just spinning in my head. You’re talking about pH of below six or whatever in the mouth. I’m just visualizing all the decline and mineralization and stuff like that. Right?

SPENCER: Sure. So there’s some other fun things we can talk about for bicarbonate. One is it removes fluoride. And fluoride is the toxin that the Nazis used in concentration camps to sedate the people in the concentration camps so they would become kind of like zombies and wouldn’t fight back. Destroys the ability to. It interferes with the parts of the brain associated with free will and spiritual connections. So we know that fluorine is being used in the water supplies, and it’s kind of hard not to, you buy organic vegetables and fruits and vegetables. Well, they’re probably, if they’re irrigating it with fluoridated water, you’re getting fluoride that way.

SPENCER: It’s hard to avoid it. But bicarbonates will displace fluoride. Bicarbonates also have a chelating effect. They can get rid of toxic metals, but there’s other things better for that. Now, to close on bicarbonate, I’ll tell you a personal story. So my first interest in bicarbonates was based on the work of Dr. Simoncini, who was using bicarbonate injections with cancer.

MARTIN: Yeah.

SPENCER: And I wanted to find a way that people could do strong doses of bicarbonates without having to find a doctor to give them intravenous bicarbonate. Now, there’s a lot of ways you can get bicarbonate into the body. You can mix it in water and drink it. That’s baking soda. But then you neutralize the stomach acid. So that’s not good.

MARTIN: Yep. It just wipes out the digestion.

SPENCER: Right. You could take baths with it. You could take two cups of sodium bicarbonate and put it in a hot bath and soak in it. And that’s definitely better. But what I did as an experiment was, I injected some subcutaneously. I gave myself, I was trying to figure out how much bicarb can I take without it stinging. At 4.8% it is about as good.

SPENCER: And 8% hurts. So I injected it into lymph nodes in my groin on either side, like 20 ml of 4.8% sodium bicarbonate. And a couple of interesting things happened. So that evening, I woke up multiple times during the night with persistent and very strong erections. There’s no other way to say that. And I’m 55, so that’s not something that typically happens in your fifties. And that’s more a thing when you’re a much younger man. And so I woke up, and I’m like, what the heck was that about? That was like being a teenager.

SPENCER: And then I had to look it up. Is there any connection between erections and sodium bicarbonate? And indeed, there is. Another thing that happened is the lymph nodes. I’ve had some swollen lymph nodes in my groin for my whole life. And they started going down the first time in, like, 30, 40 years, which is a whole other conversation to have.

SPENCER: Subcutaneous liquid bicarbonate. Which I’m not suggesting people do, but I’m just giving you the story of how I came up with this, what I’m about to tell you. So I’m looking up, I’m like, bicarbonate and erections, what’s there in the literature? And this could be a whole talk on its own, but here it is. Okay, in order to get an erection, two things have to happen. And again, erections don’t just happen for men. Women have their own version internally, another conversation. So blood has to go into the penis, and that’s arterial, and then it has to not get out.

SPENCER: And that’s venous. So the blood goes in, and then as the blood goes in, it pinches off some veins, which keeps the blood from coming back out. Now, a great number of people have a degree of erectile dysfunction or impotence as they get older. A man who lives long enough is pretty much guaranteed to become impotent. It’s like 40% of men in their forties, 50% of men in their fifties, something like that. So it’s not a small thing. And a lot of guys won’t talk about it because they’re embarrassed about it. They won’t talk to their doctor about it.

MARTIN: Well, they go buy the blue pill and hope for the best.

SPENCER: Well, we’re going to talk about what that means, right? So I would divide it into saying that there’s two types of impotence. Right? There’s arterial, meaning the blood’s not getting in. And that’s sort of like if you imagine you have a flat tire in your car and you have a hand pump, but the pump doesn’t work, your tire’s not gonna get filled. That would be arterial.

MARTIN: You can’t fill it.

SPENCER: Right. It won’t fill it up. And that’s much more rare. Right? That’s associated with a much greater age, heart disease, diabetes, arterial blood issues. And for that, you could take a look at some of the arterial cardiovascular detox protocols we talk about. The far more common is the venous side, what I would call venous impotence or erectile dysfunction, where you are pumping the tire up, but the tires got a leak in it, and no matter how much air you put into the tire, it leaks out. And this is what most men experience.

MARTIN: Yes, you can get it up, but it won’t stay up.

SPENCER: Right. So this is what most men experience once they start getting older in their years and probably a lot younger than they’d like, is that their erections aren’t as strong because the pressure never builds. And it doesn’t last very long because it leaks out again. Now, what some people do is they’ll take either supplements or drugs to raise nitric oxide. Supplements could be like arginine and drugs. There’s a couple of drugs. It’s a $3 billion a year worldwide industry. There are special cells in the penis called smooth muscle cells that are involved in relaxing and allowing pressure to go against the vein to keep the blood from leaving. But we lose these cells every year. And when you lose about 15% of those cells, there’s not enough there to apply enough pressure to cause the erection to stay.

MARTIN: Yeah, you leak.

SPENCER: Right, right. You leak. Exactly. So what they try to do with these nitric oxide drugs is they try to, and the body does this itself also, to a degree, it tries to ramp up the nitric oxide to a point where it’ll kind of overcome that for a while. Here’s the problem. Nitric oxide has a dark side to it. It turns into one thing called peroxynitrite. And then there’s another thing, which is oxygen-nitrogen (ONOO-)

SPENCER: It’s a whole bunch of things. And if you look at the formula, and they haven’t named this thing, but it’s ONOO-. So I call it, “Oh no”.

MARTIN: Oh, yeah, that’s totally it. ONOO-, you have that.

SPENCER: The “oh no” chemical. So you don’t want peroxynitrite, and you don’t want the “oh no” chemical, because what these do is they’ll actually accelerate the destruction of the smooth muscle cells. So it’s a fly now, pay later plan. Right. If the reason that they ended up buying these things is they lost these smooth muscle cells with age, and then they’re taking the drug, which temporarily boosts them and gives them more nitric oxide at a cost of making these chemicals that then make you lose more of these smooth muscle cells.

SPENCER: And then, eventually then nothing.

MARTIN: So you have your moment of fun, and the next time, it’s going to be even harder to get it.

SPENCER: So here are some thoughts, right. One, there’s a very natural way to raise nitric oxide. Sodium bicarbonate raises nitric oxide in the body. And number two, we want to neutralize the peroxynitrite and the ONOO molecule, and sodium bicarbonate breaks down the peroxynitrite and the ONOO molecule. So if God ever gave us something for male sexual longevity. It’s baking soda.

MARTIN: So here’s a cheap trick, then. If you do use the blue pill, make sure that you follow it with?

SPENCER: Yes, Sodium bicarbonate. So you’re right there. So there’s three people that could consider taking sodium bicarbonate. And then I’ll tell you how to do this without injections. Okay. Number one, you’re a young man, you’re 20, you got a healthy sex life. You’ve got all of your smooth muscle cells, and you want to keep them because every time you get an erection, even naturally, without any kind of help, you’re getting nitric oxide, some of which is turning into peroxynitrite and the ONOO molecule. And slowly but surely losing some of those smooth muscle cells.

MARTIN: It’s like driving at 60,000 miles.

SPENCER: Right. So you’re hearing this, and you’re like, I’m 20, I’m 30. I’ve got great sexual vigor. Wonderful. Would you like to keep it? Sodium bicarb. Okay. The second group of people, they’re like, oh, well, yeah, I actually do take a little, I do take some drugs or some supplements. Okay. If that’s where you’re at, make sure you take some sodium bicarb with it so that when the nitric oxide, which has a very short half life, breaks down into peroxynitrite and the, ONOO molecule, you can neutralize those pretty darn quick, and you won’t make it any worse.

SPENCER: And then if people need even a little bit more help, there’s things called shockwave therapy, which can vibrate the tissue in the penis and bring in stem cells. But you have to make sure that you have enough testosterone in your body. Because if you do have testosterone, then these stem cells that are recruited become smooth muscle cells. And if you don’t have testosterone, they turn into fat cells, and that isn’t going to do anything for you. Yeah, you wasted your, well, you might have made it worse, because now you have fatty tissue in there. Okay. Right.

SPENCER: So sodium bicarbonate. So what do you do? You don’t need to inject sodium bicarbonate, but what we do want to take it into our body and slowly build our levels back up, because most people don’t want to eat like a stone age hunter-gatherer, I don’t think you want to be chewing on roots and vegetables and tubers for 90% of your food and then have a little bit of meat. We’re going to eat the way we want to eat. So to do that, we’re going to have to neutralize it. We have to raise our bicarb levels, which you can measure with the pH paper. Right? I wanted to take bicarb orally, which is the easiest way to do it.

SPENCER: But I didn’t want to wipe out my stomach acid. So what we did is we created a bicarb form that only opens up in the small intestine, which is where the liver and the pancreas are on their own dumping bicarb. So we’re mimicking how the body delivers bicarb to it.

MARTIN: Right. In the small intestine. Duodenum.

SPENCER: In the small intestine. Exactly. And someone might say, well, carnivores don’t do this. I’m like, yeah, they do. Carnivores get bicarb all the time. They’re eating the pancreas and the small intestine. That’s where all the bicarb is. It’s one of the first places they eat when they kill an animal.

MARTIN: Yeah. That’s the first thing they go after. They eat the guts.

SPENCER: Yeah. Right. Because that’s where all the bicarb is. Even animals know enough to do this as well. So, there’s a thousand reasons. And I haven’t even covered all the reasons why bicarb is important for the human body. It just goes on and on and on. It’s an incredibly overlooked deficiency.

SPENCER: And it’s incredibly easy to fix if you know how to do it. And you can monitor it. You can see for yourself: “Wow. Look! My saliva pH is 6.6. Hey now it’s 6.8.”

SPENCER: And all of a sudden, look what’s going on with my blood pressure. And I think I’m losing a little bit of weight. And the triglycerides are normalizing. And, oh, my God, my sex life is better. So bicarb is an important aspect of living a long and vital life.

MARTIN: And so the secret is the delivery.

SPENCER: Right. So we make a product called Bicarbamet, which is the potassium and sodium bicarbonates. In a way that they only release in the small intestine where we want them to. So you don’t wipe out your stomach acid. It mimics how the body naturally gives you bicarb.

MARTIN: Right. So it’s the packaging. It’s like having it in a capsule that will survive the stomach and then release right after that.

SPENCER: That’s the idea. We want it released over the course of the small intestine. So there’s ways in which we’ve got a special proprietary technology to release it in the way that I feel is the way it should be released at the place I want it released to. And then what happens is the body actually will reabsorb it at the end of the small intestine. It wants bicarb so badly that it’ll actually try to reabsorb most of the bicarb that is released at the top of the small intestine will reabsorb it back at the bottom. But most of us are so short on bicarb. And, yeah, it’s an important thing to understand how to have your optimal life.

MARTIN: So here’s an interesting sidebar. Sodium chloride is an important mineral, and doctors have been telling people to use less of it. But in fact, the Cl, the chloride is used in the stomach to make hydrochloric acid. And the Na, the sodium is used in your pancreas to build more sodium bicarbonate.

SPENCER: There was a study a while ago that said, oh no, look, we’re seeing blood pressure disorders with people that eat salt, and it was debunked. And what we now know is, yes, there are some people that have a reaction to salt, and there’s lots of people with high blood pressure, and there’s lots of people that don’t. And so unless you’re one of those people that when you take salt, your blood pressure skyrockets. Salt actually is incredibly important.

MARTIN: Needed.

SPENCER: Yeah.

MARTIN: Yeah. Okay. Is there much more to say about this?

SPENCER: Oh, sure. Hours.

MARTIN: Yeah. Okay. Take what? Take one with meals, or how do you do it?

SPENCER: Right. So what you’re going to do is you’re going to start one with meals, and you’re going to watch your saliva and your urine pH, and you’re going to raise it up until you get to the pH you like. Or if you’re getting too alkaline, back off a little bit and just wait. Because you’ve got 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years of acids to dump. Right. There’s no need to push it all out in one weekend. So you’re going to raise it up, reactable. Right.

MARTIN: You will have a bad reaction to it.

SPENCER: You can get too far the other way. Balance in everything. So you’re going to slowly increase the levels as your body allows you to. Watching your saliva and your urine pH. And then based on when that starts to normalize, you can slowly start to back off until you find the number you need to take; that equals,

SPENCER: So at that point in time you’ve cleared all the acids out of your tissue, and you’ve built up your bicarbonates. When you clear all the acids, your urine pH comes up. When you build your bicarbonate stores, the saliva pH comes up. And when those are both good and stable, then what you’re doing is you can back it down a little bit and find the amount of bicarb you need to neutralize the way you choose to eat. Right. If you say, hey, you know what? I like to eat really acid foods and I’m not going to stop. Have at it, you’re just going to need a little bit more bicarb. If you say, I’m not a really big fan of grains and beans and meat. I’m mostly vegetarian, and I drink lots of vegetable juice, you won’t need much at all.

MARTIN: Yeah. There’s an interesting side effect to this. Your bones will get heavier, so you will actually be weighing more as your minerals are starting to get stored instead of dumped.

SPENCER: Right. Right. So the body will rob calcium from the bones to alkalinize itself. There’s a lot of emergency responses. The body has to metabolic acidosis.

MARTIN: What I’m pointing at is that when you weigh yourself on a scale, you will actually be heavier while becoming slimmer because you will be restoring your mineral stores. I mean, it’s not huge. It’s five pounds or whatever, but it’s going to make a difference. And, of course, well, especially women. But pretty much all old folks have this thinning bone problem that will likely reverse.

SPENCER: I don’t think it’s realistic or even desirable to eat like a Stone age person. No, but I do want Stone Age health.

MARTIN: Well, you know, stone age people died at age 37 or 38.

SPENCER: Well, yeah. I mean, well, what you have is a split. Right? You have people who died because they got injuries. But you also had guys, people who made it out to 80. And I’ll give you an example. If you take a look at wild animals, not the ones that are being fed laboratory chow or dog or pet food, other than looking at the receding of their gums, it can be very hard to tell how old they are.

SPENCER: Animals don’t age like humans. Aging the way humans experience it, or human pets experience. It is a very human phenomenon in the animal kingdom. A lot of animals, when they get older, they’re still vital and strong and capable.

MARTIN: They go all the way until it’s over, and then it’s over.

MARTIN: Right. And that’s how I’d like to go. I believe that much of what we’re seeing in human aging and the lack of that in animal aging is the bicarbonate levels.

SPENCER: So when I say I want to age like a stone age man, I don’t want to die by a saber toothed tiger. I want to age like a successful stone age guy who, who’s made it out to 80, strong as an ox, still has good vision, sharp mind, and is still sexually active. And then 80, 90s, like, all right, that’s it. Yeah.

MARTIN: Yeah. I would love to die surfing at 96.

SPENCER: That sounds great.

MARTIN: Yeah. Okay, so the dosage is clear. This one does not have to be refrigerated or, yes?

SPENCER: So, no. But some of the tech we have in there to do what we’re trying to do would do better in a cold or.

MARTIN: Okay, so keep it cold. All right, so one to two to three. What’s the limit?

SPENCER: Well, the limit is how you feel, right? Everybody’s different. So you start with one. You look at your saliva and your urine pH. You could try a second one. And as long as you don’t feel bad from it, you can keep going up until the point where you’re like, okay, that’s too much. That doesn’t feel good.

MARTIN: Awesome. I’m looking forward to living my stone age man life. Really. It’s awesome. I have been puzzled by this because it’s really hard to get bicarbs into the body. People don’t realize it. We have been looking for something that is of this sort. We actually have had a supplement that tries to deliver bicarbonates, but it’s been kind of iffy.

MARTIN: This way is promising. Very promising.

SPENCER: Yeah. When I had the aha moment, I’m like, oh, my God, we could do it like this. I was so excited because, I mean, I can do injections. I’ll do subcutaneous bicarb injections for myself. But what do I do for my 80 year old mother who’s 3000 miles away? What do I do for clients? What do I do for friends and family? They’re not going to have access to the medical equipment I’ve got. And once I realized that we could do this, I was on cloud nine.

MARTIN: This is a major physiological breakthrough of the modern technological or industrial age man. Figuring out how to actually bridge the gap.

SPENCER: Yeah.

MARTIN: Now I really understand your excitement about it. Okay, Bicarbamet. This has been Spencer Feldman from Remedylink and Martin Pytela, life-enthusiast.com, by phone at (866) 543-3388. And thank you, Spencer.

SPENCER: Thanks, Martin.

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Podcast 481: Understanding Inflammation Beyond Arthritis

In today’s episode, Martin delves deep into the complex world of inflammation, revealing its root causes and examining powerful, evidence-based strategies to help relieve symptoms. Join Martin as he breaks down the science of inflammation and arthritis, providing clear insights and practical tips to help you take control of your health.

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Good morning. This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast. Today’s topic I wanted to raise arthritis. Arthritis is an interesting word. Itis, otis, etes, at the end of a word in medical terminology, signifies or means inflammatory. Like diabetes is an inflammation, otitis media would be the infection of the middle ear. Gastritis would be inflammation in the gastric stomach. Colitis would be the inflammation of the colon, and on and on and on. Names like that. So arthritis specifically is the inflammation in the joints. 

The mainstream medical people like to use geography to name things. They do not concern themselves with the cause of the disease. They just simply describe it as where it is and what the symptom is, which is very deceptive, because it causes the illusion that the illness is caused by where the symptoms are. But sort of like a mushroom – if you go in the forest and see the fruiting body of a mushroom that pops up somewhere, that is just the reproductive organ of the mycelium, and you have this mycelium throughout under the ground, around the roots. And then this thing just pops up. That’s just where it reproduces. That’s just where it shows its face. Or maybe another metaphor I would use would be an iceberg where you see an iceberg, whatever you see above water, that’s only 10% of the total mass of the thing. Arthritis as such, of course, is a nasty thing because it makes us uncomfortable, gives us pain.

In its latter stages, it causes a great deal of discomfort and loss of mobility. That’s the story with inflammation. It has five important symptoms. Redness, swelling, heat, pain, and importantly, loss of function. Of course the acute that’s that’s easy right. Like you twist your ankle, you can’t step on it because it’s painful. It’s there for a reason. The pain is there so you stop using it. You can’t use it,  that’s the loss of function. It swells up because the cells are broken and fluids are filling in and making it swollen, and the redness, well, sometimes you can’t see because it’s on the inside, but the swelling is obvious. And the heat, it’s there because with heat the body can restore cells, replace the bad or worn out damaged ones with good ones. Now, in case of arthritis you will see swelling of the joints, like for example, you can see it on the fingers. You would see that the knuckle will swell in size. When you see that, then that’s a sure sign of arthritis. On the knee, it’s often obvious because it’s a swollen knee. On the hip it’s seldom as obvious because it’s inside, hidden by a lot of flesh, but all the same, it’ll give you discomfort. It’ll give you an inability to move. But before we get to that stage, the body process that takes us there is running. And it’s running for a good while before you go all the way to loss of function and the early stages, we call it stiffness on rising.

You could probably relate, if you’re taking a drive in an automobile, you’re sitting in the same position for maybe an hour or two. And then when you try to get up or out of the seat, it takes you two, 4 or 6 steps before you can straighten out, before you can start moving. This same thing is also experienced, like you’re sitting in a chair, reading a book or watching something on television, and then you get to get up. Now young folk, they just leap up and run. The older folk, they get out of the chair, and then they slowly kind of straighten out and move a little. And then after about 3 or 4 steps, they’re kind of able to walk straight. Well, this stiffness on rising is essentially a sign of body-wide inflammation underway. Well, it may end up in arthritis, but it may end up in other symptoms too, right? Because the process that’s behind it, which is inflammatory in general, is caused by either lack of circulation that would be stagnation or it’s caused by toxicity, presence of things that should not be there, or malnutrition, which would be absence of things that should be there, but aren’t. And the toxicity that could be of two kinds. That could be the metabolic toxicity, which would be your body’s inability to just maintain the life processes themselves and becoming self-toxified by not cleansing well enough.

And then the second part would be the industrial, external toxicity, which has a little to do with the metabolism itself. It just arrives and stays because the detox pathways are not able to get rid of it well enough. All the same, it just is. So if we go back to the geography, we can start thinking that we could have arthritis in the neck, or we could have a pain in the head where it gets to be a headache or a migraine or something like that. Or we could have arthritic stuff happening anywhere on any bone. And some of it has to do with calcification. The two minerals that control the autonomic nervous system are calcium and magnesium. 

Calcium activates the fight or flight, Magnesium activates the rest and repair –  sympathetic and parasympathetic. And when there’s not enough Magnesium, calcium when it’s taken out of places, wherever it may be. The most obvious storage place for calcium is the bone. The large bones of the body, the femur, the pelvis, but all the other bones as well. So the calcium is stored in the bones of your body. It comes out of solution when it’s needed for whatever physiological effects for functioning. And then when it’s not needed, it should be returned back into the bone. But oftentimes because of imbalances, it’s deposited in wrong places. You end up with bone spurs or bumps, or instead of the bone being smooth, it’s got little bumps in the wrong places.

Having enough magnesium is important because it supports the return to the parasympathetic, the repair. It also, magnesium, if you could think of the bone as a brick wall, the magnesium molecules would be like the mortar and the calcium molecules would be like bricks. Maybe I should call them ions, since that would be more appropriate. The magnesium ions would be the mortar and the calcium ions would be the bricks. Then the reason I’m saying ions is because these ions, when they are in solution, they are moving freely and they have electric charge on them. I’ll give you an example. For example, salt, you put salt in water and it dissolves. And salt is sodium chloride NaCl, one atom of sodium, one atom of chlorine. They are joined together to form sodium chloride. What’s interesting is that sodium by itself, sodium metal Na2 is super reactive and highly toxic, but as an ion, it’s not. Similarly, chlorine, chlorine is Cl2. Chlorine gas is exceedingly toxic and very harmful. And yet the single ion of chlorine, chloride now, is really important and involved in great many transactions, metabolic functions in the body. One of them is the regulation of the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the tissue. Calcium and magnesium containing mineral is dolomite, which is a combination of calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate, which is CaCO3 and MgCO3. [Note: it is written as CaMg(CO3)2]

And CO3, that’s actually the carbonic acid ion. So when you take them apart, you have carbonic acid and you have the calcium ion. And the carbonic acid can be taken apart into water and carbon dioxide. That’s how this works in the body, is that you can actually become more acidic by pulling more CO2 into yourself into solution, and then becoming less acidic by getting rid of that CO2. And there’s a very simple method for that. It’s called breathing. So as you exhale you can exhale more and more of this carbon dioxide and get rid of it. And that way you get rid of a lot of acidity. 

The other way you get rid of acidity is that your body can make baking soda. Your pancreas makes that. Anyway, again, combination of hydrogen, carbon dioxide and sodium bicarbonate comes out of your body. So that’s another way of getting rid of acidity. But the minerals calcium and magnesium are actually the alkalizing minerals. They are involved in keeping your body alkaline. 

So where am I headed with this? With arthritis, you are getting inflammation in the joint for one of many reasons. As I listed it, it could be toxicity, it could be lack of circulation, lack of movement. It’s bizarre right? That the best thing you can do for arthritis is to actually move the joint. But you also need to not be in pain. So what would you do in the for a shortcut? Well, if you’re in pain here now, three things, one, you need better water. You need more water in the body. And it should be the structured water that allows you to move things around. You need some kind of a transport mechanism to move the minerals, to move all the tissues. And structured water helps. And that’s where we come with the devices that help us do that. You can find that category in the Home and Skincare. But anyway, devices for water and food or structured water, you can buy structured water ready to use or you can use a device to make your own. Actually, I have a device right here. This thing is called ADR-4 and it’s a simple disc. You can see it’s about five inches in diameter or about half inch thick, about my fingers’ thickness. And whatever you put on top of it like an example is going to get structured, harmonized. And the other tool I have, you can see these in the bottom of this bottle. These are ceramic blobs that we sell in the store as Crystal Pearls. And the crystal pearls are able to break up and discharge the energies that are causing water to cluster, thereby causing it to be more absorbable and thereby being better able to carry nutrients in and toxins out. Important, right? 

The other part is getting the balance right between calcium and magnesium. For the most part, in most people the balance is too much calcium, not enough magnesium. 

There are some people who need more calcium, but most seem to get enough from food. What there is a lack of is Magnesium in food, and so supplementing that is very wise, especially if you’re suffering from stiffness on rising or enlarged joints and the likes. So that would be the mineralization. And that’s super important because when you get that balance off, then you need to have the nutrients that can bring the balance back in. 

The second common reasoning on that is the inflammation that comes from the food we eat. The most common foods that people have joint issues from are called nightshades, solanaceae. Solanine is the alkaloid and you probably have heard about leptins. These are made in the plants with the intention of hurting you, the person or the animal that’s ingesting them so that you don’t eat too much of it. Because if you eat too much of it, you’re essentially overharvesting the resource. And that plant is allowing itself to be eaten, but doesn’t want to be completely eaten or eaten in excess because that would cause it to die off. 

I just see that in the chat there are a couple of questions, so I’m going to answer those. So returning back to the water, do the Prills and Pearls make the water structured? The structuring of the water is that every molecule of water is a polar molecule. It has a H and an OH and the positive and the negative. So it acts as a miniature magnet. And this magnet strength is related to how the angle between the two hydrogens is wide or the width of the angle. And so if you could visualize the water molecule, it would be like if you draw a cartoon of a Mickey mouse head, this would be the head, and the two atoms of hydrogen would be sitting on top one here and one here. And the angle of it either widens or narrows. And if it narrows, the magnetic field goes down. And if it widens, the magnetic field goes up. And the structuring that we’re talking about has to do with the electric potential that is in the water. And as we use these ceramic devices, we’re discharging the stored potential, which causes the water to become less charged and the latent water crystals fall apart and the cluster size of the water decreases, thereby making it more hydrating at the cellular level and also making it more alkaline, making it more ORP into the alkaline again into the negative voltage which is more compatible with the human body. Your ORP at the cells should be -25 milliVolt. That would be the natural electric potential of the cell. And when you go into inflammation, you push it all the way to -50 or 70 milliVolt. And when you push toward cancer, you cross over from the negative into the positive. And at about plus 20 milliVolt, the cells start losing their integrity. They start losing their ability to continue to exist as a functioning cell. So it’s a fairly narrow range. 

And the other question here is about the ADR. This ADR-4, it’s harmonizing the water. It takes maybe two or three minutes. Like, if you put a bottle this size on it, you need about two minutes. Bottle of wine, maybe five minutes on the plate. And then the water in this vessel that you put on top of it is harmonized. And it will remain that way for some time. The warmer the fluid, the faster it’s processed when you put it on the plate, but also the faster it returns into random because the water molecules move quicker and they start bumping into one another and start building or losing the harmony again, I would say maybe a day you have a day or two, and if you put it in the fridge maybe three days before, the water is kind of back to as it was random rather than organized. Although we have found that we can, and we do make the water so structured that it seems to last for months afterwards. We sell this thing called magic water. Yeah, that’s what it’s called, magic water. And that seems to last indefinitely.

Now let’s talk about what happens, why? So it could be an injury. Wherever there is an injury like you twist your ankle, that’s probably going to be the arthritic the soonest. And if you start getting arthritis or you either tear it or overuse it in an activity and you end up with some sort of injury, some sort of a repair, and the repairs that the body makes are not necessarily done with the native cells. It is often done with fibrin, which is the scar tissue. So as we go along, we may become more and more stiff because the repairs are more and more extensive, and these repairs could be happening in your arteries, making your blood vessels stiffer. They could be happening in your joints, making your joints stiffer, or any other soft tissue. 

And like fibromyalgia, it is a famous name. It is another interesting word, right? Algia or alg that has to do with pain. And fibro. That’s fibrosis or fibro tissue. And myo that’s like anything muscle. There you have it, right? Muscles bound up with fibers giving you pain. That’s the plain translation of the fancy word fibromyalgia. Anyway, why am I up on that? Well, so the fiber is binding things up. It’s stiffening things. So undoing that would logically lead to reducing the stiffness of things. And for that we have fibrinolytic enzymes. The most famous one of the lot is, or the most commonly used one is Serrapeptase or serrapeptidase. We have that in several products, Zymitol, Vitalzym, Fibrenza. These products are very effective and efficient at helping to undo the damage done through injuries and repairs. So if you end up with what’s known as calculus, calculus means calcium deposits in the wrong place. Like you probably are familiar with calculus on your teeth. When you go for dental hygienist cleaning of the teeth. They are scraping this calculus off of your teeth because it’s the calcification that’s a deposit that causes some irritation to the gum. And if it’s at the gum line, the gum line starts receding in reaction to the calcium deposits. And that’s most undesirable because you need to keep the gum line as high on the tooth as possible. That’s the calcification, that’s the calculus. 

Well, you can have that same thing happening on a joint, like for example, this joint here. If the calculi are depositing, you’re starting to see a swelling of the joint. And we do have a really interesting product called Arthritis-Ease, which is very good at stimulating the body to undo this calcification. And you’ll speed it up even more if you raise the available Magnesium, because Calcium and Magnesium are each other’s antagonists. So when you push the magnesium, that will also speed up the removal of calcium from places where it shouldn’t be and moving it to places where it should be.

There’s one other one called TMJ-Ease temporomandibular joint. That’s the joint that you would find just in front of your ear down here. If you open your mouth, you will feel where that joint is. And that joint, some people end up with calcification there, and that happens because of some misalignments, right? Like if you have a misaligned bite or something else going on grinding teeth, tension, you may end up with inflammation in this joint, TMJ. And if you have that, it can be exceedingly painful. And the TMJ-Ease is a herbal tincture that helps us reduce that calcification, thereby reducing the friction, thereby improving the function and so on. But it doesn’t fix the mechanical problem. So if you develop that problem because of a misalignment, you need to first have a bite adjusted to make it work. Or you may need to get rid of your grinding of the teeth.

Speaking of which, two major causes, one of them is parasites. If you’re finding yourself grinding your teeth at night, you may have parasites that you should get rid of. And the other one is tension. Just unresolved stress and anxiety. Taking a Magnesium soak before bedtime, foot soak or bath soak is a grand idea, because it will help to relax you and your body and help you sleep. I was actually in the middle of mentioning the Solanaceae when I bumped into a sidebar. The nightshade plants for some reason affect the joints more than anything. These plants are, the common ones are potato as in white potato, not a sweet potato, but just a white potato.

Which actually could be red and purple. Tomato, eggplant, bell pepper which could be green, yellow or red cayenne pepper. Same deal, chili pepper. And of the more exotic ashwagandha is on the list, goji berry is on that list, so there’s a bunch of them, but the most common ones are the ones I just mentioned. So for example, a Greek salad with tomatoes and bell peppers is definitely and tomatoes on the side. That’s a nice heavy hit of the nightshades. Now, what’s interesting is that nightshade plants were not in Europe until the 1700s. Tomatoes and potatoes were imported from America. So even though they became the staple diet, not that many generations back, there was no exposure to them. But the best way to find out if you have a lot of European heritage rather than Aztec, native Mexican or Peruvian, if you don’t have that genetic heritage and you likely don’t, because poor Incas, after the visitation of the Spanish conquistadors in first visitation 1490, so it would be early 1500s. When the Spaniards showed up on the west coast of South America, the Incan empire was strong, but they brought with it smallpox, and the smallpox was deadly, and the Incas had no immune defenses against it. The Europeans had the smallpox infections, and they had natural immunity all along. So anyway, 94 out of 100 died, which was awful. Anyway, point is, so try two months, maybe three, without nightshade plants in your diet if you’re having arthritic issues and you will find yourself possibly pain free.

The other common irritant is grain, wheat. So if the nightshades didn’t cut it, try eliminating gluten from your diet. That would be especially wheat. But you need to be a very good detective these days to discover what is or is not gluten free. Gluten these days is found in many things. It’s in ketchup, it’s in mustard, it’s in all kinds of other condiments. And of course, it’s in all the baked goods. Unless you specifically buy something that’s gluten free. But a lot of these gluten free flours will have potato starch in it, which may trigger you with the potato. So you need to kind of pay attention. 

There are three things about grains. Number one, they are estrogen promoting until they’re sprouted. So we want to be using sprouted grains rather than not sprouted when we make baked goods. Ezekiel bread is made with sprouted grain and it’s also an unleavened bread, so there’s no yeast in it. So there’s a good chance that it’s healthier for you, but it should be made with organic grains rather than with the ones that have been treated with glyphosate. Because if you use regular grain, you may have a problem. And if you have a gluten problem, then even Ezekiel bread is going to be bad for you. So if you’re okay with wheat and if you use a decent grain, then the Ezekiel bread is the best option.

The other good option is called sourdough. Sourdough is also reducing the negative effects of the grains that it would have on us. So those two would be great. So sourdough is made with sprouted grains or Ezekiel style. As time goes, as we age, we typically lose our ability to repair. The immune system does decline somewhat. The way it works in the human body is that you have the villi in the small intestine, and the villi are covered with a single cell layer of a protective permeable barrier. And this barrier is keeping the sensitive inside from the assaults of the dirty or non-sterile outside. So if you visualize your mouth, it’s the beginning of the pipe that goes through your body, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and out. That actually is the outside running through the middle of you. So when you ingest food, the food is outside and it’s got bacteria on it and it’s got nematodes on it and maybe fungus. And it may have all kinds of things, some which are useful nutrients, but some which are toxins. And in the process of digesting it, the system is supposed to sort it out and allow only the stuff that we want to come and pass through the villi into the bloodstream, and everything else should be in that brown banana that you push out of your anus every day, hopefully every day. 

So if the small intestine gets damaged, the covering is really only one cell thick. 

So wheat with its gluten and its zonulin tends to punch holes in this covering. So it’s as if there was a separation, right? Like all of a sudden, there’s this gap that allows stuff to come through all the way down. By down I mean all the way into the bloodstream. So that allows under digested bits, clusters of amino acids, peptides, bits of protein that they get into the bloodstream. And all of a sudden the non-me, the foreign external stuff that shouldn’t be there is circulating. And your immune system has to deal with it. Well your liver, your kidneys, your immunity and all of that, that all gets affected. 

So I remember I could eat wheat until about 15 years ago. Yeah, that would have been what it was 15 years ago, 2005 or so. Yeah, about then, and then I started having health problems from it. So I stopped eating it. And then I went on a business trip to Italy, I think it was 2012. Yeah, 2012. So I was well into not being able to eat wheat. And in Italy you get the spaghetti and you get the bread and whatever, whatever. And I thought, well, what the heck, I’m here only for three days. I just have to eat something. So I ate the Italian wheat. Nothing happened. So I’m asking my host, tell me about Italian wheat.

And he said: “Grano, which is the Italian word for grain in Italy, is defined as the old wheat that is still four feet tall when it’s grown, not the 18 inch hybridized selected stuff that’s grown in North America. And it only has 6% of gluten and not 13 as it has in America.  The researchers here were so proud of themselves, telling us that they have created varieties that have more protein in it, as if we needed it. Also, in Italy, they’re not allowed to use herbicides and pesticides, so it’s naturally organic. So I experienced it myself. No problem eating Italian. I surely hope to God that they get to keep that rather than getting overrun by the World Trade Organization, and it’s machine that causes the others to push their engineering ideas onto others. So I’m contemplating moving to Italy or importing Italian pasta or Italian flour. I should try, I don’t know, I have been afraid to try because the side effects are usually not fun. My face breaks out, I hurt and all that. So not funny. 

The other thing that you should be aware of is glyphosate. Roundup, as such, is used on wheat fields in America now to not control weeds because herbicide that’s a weed control, right? But in wheat they don’t control the weeds. What they do is they spray it on just before harvest because in the process of killing the plant, as the wheat is dying, it’s pushing maximum energy into the seed, trying to preserve the next generation. 

So it increases the yield, and it also dries the plant. And as the plant dries up uniformly, it makes it easier to harvest. So they spray it. And then a few days later they come in with the combine harvesters, harvest it and put it away.

And there’s only a trace amount of this glyphosate on the grain, but it is enough to accumulate and cause damage in our gut. It doesn’t kill the human cells, but it kills the microbes that live inside our guts. And that is a major problem because with the microbial terrain breaking down, we are seeing more and more inflammatory disease. And that’s what this is. There used to be 1 or 2% people in the society with an inflammatory disease long ago. Now 40, 50% of people now have one or more inflammatory conditions. 

I mean, it starts with circulatory health, right? Like, if you have inflammation of the cardiovascular system, especially vascular, that would be vasculitis, right? That would be stiffening of the arteries. With it comes either high blood pressure or less effective heartbeats and less effective thinking because there’s not enough oxygen getting to tissues. So that’s number one. And then number two would be all these illnesses of the structure. And that, my dear friends, should be the end of the sermon today. Thank you for being here. This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast, life-enthusiast.com

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Podcast 480: Pregnancy

When people learn they’re expecting a baby, they often focus on planning the nursery decor or choosing outfits for their newborn. While these aspects are significant, what’s even more essential is to focus on cleansing your body, mind, and spirit before conception and to follow the right steps during pregnancy to guarantee your baby’s health and well-being. Remember, your body is a sacred temple. You should treat it as such.

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Good day, everyone. This is Martin Pytela, health coach at Life Enthusiast. So I thought it’s a good idea to talk about the issues that are leading up to pregnancy, going through pregnancy, and dealing with little children. I think that would be a good thing. So now to the talk, right? As I was contemplating this, I’m realizing that I was actually involved in helping my daughter with managing her health before pregnancy. The way I see this, and I think I’m not wrong about it, is that nature in genetics wants to promote, right? Like we as a species exist because we have a limited lifespan of maybe, let’s just say a hundred years of which we are in reproductive years, somewhere between 18 and 35. So that’s the optimal window. These days, people have been pushing it back. So these days, the first child isn’t born to an 18-year-old, it’s born to a 27 or 33-year-old. In the old days, before contraception and before modern days and jobs and stuff, visualize a village in the year 1200, somewhere in Europe, the typical couple living in a village.

They marry, they start having children. The natural protection of breastfeeding keeps the woman not conceiving for about two years. Sometimes it breaks through, but most times it’s that so every other year she gets pregnant. So between the age of 18 and 36, she probably has been pregnant nine times. Sometimes she loses the pregnancy because that’s normal, that’s nature. Sometimes she loses the infant. Again, that’s nature. So I would visualize that she may have a dozen of pregnancies that she will take to term in her reproductive years, but only maybe four or five of them will grow up into their reproductive age because there was poor hygiene. So anyone, any child, any infant that was not strong or that was unlucky with the arrival of some sort of an infection, they would succumb. They would die. In Roman times, like 2000 years ago, they didn’t even bother naming infants until they were two years old. The attritional rate was pretty high. Charles Darwin, his first five kids died tragically of typhoid fever. So what we have here is a cycle where nature wants to promote our DNA, right? We are reproducing by being motivated to make babies and only the strong survive. So as it rolls forward, only the most adapted to the local environment are making it, are living into their reproductive years.

And I believe that nature treats the mother as the precious resource and treats the fetus, the child, as something that’s not precious at all. And so the placenta is in fact used as a detox organ during the pregnancy. So whatever toxicity exists in the mother is actually pushed into the placenta during the pregnancy. And then through that, it’s passed on to the child. And the big deal to me is that we humans evolved in a pristine natural environment. We are not designed to deal with the industrial environment that has risen around us since the Industrial Revolution, which started around the year 1750, 1775, the invention of steam engine, 1820, the beginnings of industrial mills, cotton mills and stuff, steam engines, coal burning and so on.

1890s, gasoline and petroleum, 1910 arrival of automobiles, 1920s arrival of radio, 1930s arrival of television and all of these things, chemical industry, right? When did that really start? The petroleum age was in the 1920s, 30s. The chemical plastic age started in earnest after World War II, which also is the age when industrial fertilizers were introduced and heavily used. And with each succeeding generation, the toxicity increases. I’ll demonstrate it this way. We are told that tuna, which is the largest, one of the largest predators in the ocean, well in the ocean everybody’s a predator, little fish eat plankton and medium fish eat little fish and large fish eat medium fish and the largest fish eats the large fish. So that’s where tuna comes in, right? Tuna comes in at 600 kilos, 1200 pounds or something like that. The large tuna, right? The toxicity of the ocean that has been released by us humans into the estuaries, right? The little fish and the plankton are living mostly closest to the shore that’s the safest, shallow waters, but also wherever the rivers spill toward the ocean or into the ocean, they carry with it all the pollution that’s upstream from the rivers. So the oceans are most toxic in the estuaries or at the mouth of rivers, especially large rivers. So as the fish eat the smaller ones, they accumulate all the toxicity that has been accumulated by the smallest ones. And there is no detoxification pathway, for example, for mercury. So the mercury accumulates in the larger fish. Therefore tuna is most contaminated of all possibilities, of all the species. So when we eat tuna, because after all it’s lovely, tastes great, and it’s abundant, or at least used to be.

We are also at the same time eating the most contaminated fish, the most contamination with mercury. Anyway, so this example is to show you how with each size step up, we’re ending up with more of the toxicity because it concentrates. Likewise, with the generational move or generational transmission, a woman living in Saint Bourne in 1870 gives birth in, say, 1900 to a child with the accumulation of whatever was in her body. Well, that child gives birth in 1925 with the accumulation of whatever she has accumulated in her lifetime, which then gives us the next generation being born around 1950 with the accumulation of all of that. And then 1975 accumulating into that. And then the year 2000.

And now 2025, that’s the next generation in that line, is essentially accumulating everything that each of these people have accumulated in their lifetime. And that’s how, for example, we’re seeing this incredible rise in autism or ADD or other neurological problems, because these things are happening because of toxicity, because of the disruption of the nervous system. And the biggest disruptors are mercury, lead, cadmium, and then volatile organic compounds, stuff that’s in fire retardants that are put on our fabrics or in dry cleaner fluids or in rocket fuel that rains upon us or in herbicides that are put on our foods and paints and paint thinners and makeup and whatever there are thousands upon thousands of different chemicals that are made now that didn’t exist in the environment in which we evolved. Like out there in somewhere in the savanna or in the bush, wherever that is, these chemicals didn’t exist. So now these things are accumulating. So when you have a pregnancy and the woman already carries a bunch of toxins, all of these are passed to the child.

And of course, we have changed how things are done in the industrialized society. We don’t just throw away these children. We actually save every one of them. And especially the first and second born, which for many women are all of them that they, that she’ll ever have. They are the most toxic. So we’re introducing a double whammy. We’re retaining the toxicity and we’re retaining the genetic mutations.

So we are very quickly driving this system that previously was designed to drop and eliminate anything that was less than perfect. And we’re instead keeping all of the mutations as they’re happening and we’re increasing the level of toxicity and with it, and it’s a geometric rise. To explain, for example, there’s this concept called LD50, which stands for lethal dose

50 is when half of the people or half of the creatures to whom we give the lethal dose will die. So LD50 means that out of 150 will be dead. So let’s just say that LD150 for Mercury, no, never mind, I’ll give you a better number. I’ll go with LD1. That means that one person in a hundred would die of the dose, only the weakest. Anyway, so let’s just take an LD1 of Mercury and combine it with LD1 of lead. You would kind of think that those two combined would possibly kill two out of 100. But that’s not what happens. It kills 100, all of them, because the combination of the two things is so potent that it will, in fact, go from minimal to maximum. Boom, just like that. And this is the fallacy of the medical system and the science world as we have it now because they all want to test things in isolation. The scientific, and I really put air quotes on that, method is trying to isolate individual variables. And so they would study the thing that they’re studying in isolation. So they will study the mercury toxicity in isolation, ignoring all things around it. And as they go, they are just not seeing the big picture. They’re not seeing how the fabric of life is interacting. And so we introduce yet another thing, yet another thing, and so on, other chemicals. And we just take it through a test tube on individual cells, and then maybe we do some testing on mice, and we test it only for 90 days. And we say, okay, this is good. Let’s go push it into the open world, which is also the same sort of method with which they have been testing the immunizations. They have never tested the consequent effects of doing multiples. They just take one and test it against nothing as opposed to testing everything in context. And so we end up with what I believe is very inadequate understanding of just how complex this is and what the consequences are. But we are living with these consequences. I believe that we’re heading in a very bizarre direction where one becoming pregnant is going to be increasingly difficult because as you have more toxic men, their sperm motility is going down and the presence of plastics or estrogenicity is driving their testosterone level down, which causes lower motility. Maybe that’s not directly related, but it’s observable lower motility of the sperm. So they’re A less interested in sex. B the sperm that they put out is less alive. Three, there’s more mutations. So from men’s side, the ability to have children is lower. On women’s side, there are all kinds of disruptions too, right? There’s the problem with their ability to actually bring an egg. You know, we have this inflammatory issues, estrogen progesterone balances. And then once you have a pregnancy established, well, it’s having difficult time getting established, so there are miscarriages. I mean, these days, one in five couples is already not able to conceive in the industrialized society. So the ability to conceive, the ability to carry to term, the issue at birth that you’re giving birth to damaged children. And then of course, the issue of dealing with children that are not neurotypical children that are damaged, that are requiring extra care. Right. We used to, I don’t know, when I was a kid the incidence of autism or something on that spectrum was one in 10,000 right now it’s somewhere around one in 40 or something like that.

That’s a phenomenal increase. If this continues and it may, you will end up with everybody being on the spectrum. And  the next generation, you would have the less damaged ones looking after the more damaged ones and who’s going to actually do the work? Who’s actually going to be doing anything that helps the society carry forward? We just may come to a grinding halt because there just isn’t anybody who can go out into the field and grow the food. Speaking of growing food, growing food with fertilizers and herbicides and pesticides is terribly damaging to people who work there. So will their children be like, and will there be any to actually do the work? Never mind the fact that the product, the damaged toxic product they’re bringing out for us to eat is damaging to us.

Okay, so what can a person do with it or about it, right? Like this is not funny. So it’s my suggestion that anyone who’s contemplating pregnancy, becoming a parent, should be doing detoxification, serious detoxification. We need to get rid of all of the damage. There are two types of toxins, water-soluble and fat-soluble. The water-soluble ones have an immediate impact, but you’re able to eliminate that. So if you survive it, it’s gone from your body two to five days. Like you flush it out, it gets washed out. But if it’s fat-soluble, that’s a whole different story because your cell membrane is a bilipid layer. So every cell in your body is in fact, the outside surface is made of lipids fat. So as this fat-soluble material arrives, it is able to penetrate inside cells. So it’s able to get in. And of course, the body has to defend against it very vigorously. And it tries to do that by pushing the toxins out of the major organs protecting itself from damage. So it goes into fat cells, but it also goes into joints, cartilage, and bones, but also your brain is made of fat. So a lot of this ends up in your brain. When this stuff gets released later in life, that’s when you end up with dementia and rapid aging and all of that sort of trouble. Like osteoporosis, for example, is the process of releasing mineralization out of the bones into circulation as it’s trying to buffer the pH imbalance in the body fluids. Well, as you’re releasing the stuff that was stored, when you put that into circulation, it leads to neurological problems. So you have people who start not being able to think clearly, not being able to remember, recall, and so on. That’s the toxicity in circulation causing things to go downhill. So if you want to prevent a child that’s coming from being damaged, you start well ahead of time. You will detoxify both the mother and the father. And one, you get rid of toxic things that are heavy metals. For that, I have found that Zeolite is really effective. EDTA also works and we have multiple detoxification products on the website, you can find it there. Other things we have, for example, discovered that a defect called spina bifida, which is the badly developed spinal cord, or there’s actually a gap. Bifida is in two pieces. There’s a gap in the spine that’s somehow some kind of a development problem. Anyway, that is affected or prevented by folate. Folate is stuff that comes from FOLIC, which stands for leaf. Green leafy things, green things like alfalfa, chlorella, spirulina, barley grass, wheatgrass, kamut grass juice. These are all available in the Exsula superfoods. We put a lot of the non-toxic, clean superfood material in there. The other thing that’s super important is iodine. It’s just bizarre, but iodine or deficiency of iodine leads to lower IQ, lower intelligence in babies. And also iodine leads to protecting the pregnancy from early births from miscarriage. Folks that may have miscarried should strongly contemplate having enough iodine on board. The third thing that happens with pregnancies that don’t go to term is, or that they don’t even get established, is inflammatory foods.

Overall level of inflammation is a thing that causes the woman to not be able to actually have the zygote. You know, like when the egg meets the sperm, that actually happens outside of the uterus, that happens in the tubes. And then this thing descends and finds a spot in the uterus and settles in there.

And that’s establishing the pregnancy. Sometimes this process doesn’t happen, and you end up with an ectopic pregnancy where the egg is impregnated and starts developing and growing in the fallopian tube, causing injury and bursts. And I mean, it’s dangerous. It could lead to death. But anyway, so the pregnancy needs to be established, and this process is greatly affected by inflammatory foods.

And the most inflammatory food we have is gluten, wheat. And our oh-so-wise agriculture industry has developed a grain that the old-style grain was about 6% protein, 6% gluten. They have hybridized and turned the tall, four-foot-tall wheat into an 18-inch short, dwarf wheat that has much more protein to it.

They’re just so proud of that achievement. Well, ever since they started growing it somewhere in the mid-seventies, the rise of the problems, it just started happening. And then in the nineties, they introduced glyphosate Roundup, and that use is growing, and they now use glyphosate on grain, especially on wheat, but they use it on lentils and chickpeas and other things.

And they use it as a spray at the time of harvest. So especially in Northern latitudes where weather is threatening, right? Like you’re waiting, you have a shorter growing season and you’re hoping to get the wheat off the field before the first snowfall comes. And they could come sometime in September or something like that. So what they do is they spray the field with glyphosate, and the plant is now dying because that’s what you caused it. You caused it to die. And in the process of dying, it pushes all of its remaining energy into its progeny, into the grain. So you have a desiccated dried plant with bigger grain. And so it’s easier to harvest. It’s uniform and it’s drier than it would be otherwise. And it’s before the snowfall. Then you push the combine harvester onto the field.

Take it off the field and the chemical industry sales rep tells you, “Oh, this is fine. There’s a trace amount of the glyphosate on it, but don’t you worry, it does nothing to the human.” Well, maybe true, but it’s an antibiotic, which means that it actually kills off and damages the microbiome. So it’s causing destruction of the microbiome in the gut of the person that eats it, which causes neurological problems such as autism.

So since the 1990s, especially going into the 2000s, things have gotten worse, right? The numbers of children born with problems are going up. Now you can undo this, right? Even with your child that’s born with this condition, with neurological issues, you can repair a lot of it. Anyway, even when the child is born with some damage, you can undo a lot of it by one, detoxing.

Zeolite, it works even on infants. You can start really early. You can bring in essential fatty acids. They are really important, right? Omega threes are super important. Flax oil is really rich in ALA, alpha-lipoic acid, which is the precursor of the DHA and EPA that your body can make.

Or you can also, of course, supplement the DHA EPA in the form of fish oil, krill oil, sardine, whatever, small fish, fish oil. So that’s important. All the vitamins like vitamin therapy, just high nutrition value, right? High nutrient-density food. When you bring that, you have a chance of reverting the changes that would set and become permanent.

Sooner you can get to it, the better. The other things that you could use are also detox and then microbiome for which you need the Humic Acid and Fulvic Acid to protect the terrain. And then you need to seed it with the good things, good microbes. I mean, there’s another important point to be made, which is this: The child that is born normally vaginally experiences, gets mushed through the microbiome of the vagina.

And also, right, there’s a little bit of the poop as well in there. The microbes from the digestive tract of the mother also are present in the area. So the child gets inoculated with that. And then the child is also breastfeeding and just all the saliva, like the interaction. So a child that’s born by C-section is born sterile. That site is treated as, and correctly, as a sterile environment and so unless the surgeon is wise enough to reach into the woman’s vagina, put some of that goop on his fingers and rubbing it all over the face of this child, this child is deprived of the initial seeding of his microbiome because this child is born sterile without any of this, well not quite but largely sterile. So you need to bring in the microbes that were outside in. When this doesn’t happen, these children are predisposed toward problems. And it’s well known and statistically documented that children born through C-section are more prone to having problems on the ADD spectrum.

And then there’s the stored trauma, which is of course, emotional injuries. We all come with that. Most of us come out of our childhood with some misunderstandings that need to be cleared. We have hang-ups with either siblings or parents.

We need to resolve any stored emotional trauma if you want to have a decent life. I had to deal with my childhood issues between me and my mother and my father and my brother and whatever else. Right? And I did. The methodology or the methods that I’m familiar with, EFT, emotional freedom technique, also known as tapping helps a lot.

Body talk, quantum healing, emo code or emotional code. There are multiple disciplines out there. And each of them, touch for health is another good one that allows us to clear the stored energetics. We are actually working now with a company called AO SCAN, Solex. We started working with that, we’re learning it. It’s a method by which we can remotely send a vibrational signal that will read your vibrational picture print and send back to you stuff that will balance you. So we can understand where your weaknesses are energetically and we can send in a signal that will help to rebalance you. That’s a big deal. We’ll be introducing that, I’m sure. There are several methods again, available that way. There are multiple companies coming up with things. There’s, Healy and there’s, anyway, many, you just have to pick one. We’re going with the AO scan for now. The passing of the stuff from generation to generation, understanding how we got here, right?

You can’t hold your parents responsible. There’s no point blaming your mother for being who she was or how she did or whatever. We got what we got. The interesting point is your mother, when she was conceived or when she was gestated inside your grandmother, had all of the eggs that she’s ever going to have already inside her. So the eggs from which every period your mother has had takes one egg and drops it through, or maybe two eggs, two ovaries. Every period that she’s had, had an egg, and those eggs were in your mother when she was gestated in the belly of your grandmother. So everything that your grandmother did or knew or was at the time of the pregnancy is actually affecting the mother and the egg that becomes her child. You contemplate that. right? The passing on of information, chemically and vibrationally. The sins of our generation are passed down. That’s why we talk about seven generations, three generations back, us, and three generations forward. It just carries.

So anything that we do now is going to echo through the next three generations. We already know that. My name is Martin Pytela. I’m the health coach at Life Enthusiast, life-enthusiast.com. You can find me by phone at 866-543-3388. Thank you for listening.

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Podcast 479: Enzymes are Catalysts of Life

Today, Martin is joined by Mike Kramarczyk the CEO of HCP Formulas to delve into the fascinating world of enzymes. These remarkable biological catalysts play a crucial role in accelerating chemical reactions within our bodies, all without being consumed in the process. By doing so, enzymes ensure that essential metabolic processes occur swiftly and efficiently, keeping us alive and thriving.

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MARTIN: Hi everyone. This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast Podcast. And today with me is Mike Kramarczyk. He is with HCP Supplements, our favorite enzyme supplement company. Mike, would you take two minutes to tell your personal history? How did you get into enzymes?

MIKE It all started with hearing a decent sized handful of end users telling me about all these different experiences they had with systemic enzymes. That’s ground zero.

MARTIN: All right. And so that’s many years ago now, right?

MIKE: Oh, 22 years ago.

MARTIN: So you have taken classes, you have gone to,

MIKE: Oh, oh, yes.

MARTIN: You studied it. You now know enzymes backwards probably, right?

MIKE: I like to think so. I definitely don’t know everything. I don’t know. Pretend to, but it does take quite a bit to stump me when it comes to enzymes.

MARTIN: Well, so let’s just unpack it. Why do people need to take enzymes?

MIKE: That’s an awesome question and that actually goes all the way back to when we’re born. The reason why people need to take systemic enzymes, not digestive enzymes. Digestive enzymes, you take them with food, they release in the stomach and they get the whole digestive process a head start. Systemic enzymes are taken away from food and the intent is to keep them intact until they have a chance to get into your bloodstream and that’s when they start bringing with them an entirely different set of benefits.

As far as why people should take enzymes, systemic enzymes specifically, that reason totally goes back to our birth. When we are born, we are born with this massive supply of enzymes within us inherently. And throughout our entire childhood, our body is not shy about tapping into that supply and using them, and it uses them by the truckload. And that’s why when we’re five and 10 and 15 years old, we run around, we trip, we fall, we hurt ourselves, all we did was get right back up and keep doing whatever it was that hurt us in the first place. But you might notice when we’re 40 or 50 or 60 years old, it just isn’t quite the same way. And the entire difference is enzymes.

The reason why there’s such a huge gap between those two situations is because we go through a lot of different changes in our life. And one of the biggest periods of changes in our late 20s, like 28, 29, maybe 30 years old. A lot of big changes take place at that point. Our aging process kicks into high gear at that point. But also too, our bodies take inventory. And our body basically says, hey, if we keep using these enzymes at the rate that we did through our youth we’re not gonna have any left when we get to 40 or 50 or 60 years old. So instead of using them by the truckload, it starts using them by the spoonful. And that’s why when we get older, pain is more debilitating, recovery times are longer, scars and more visible. It’s all because of enzymes.

So when you supplement with systemic enzymes, you’re putting a huge supply back in play. And our bodies quickly adapt to that and say, hey, wow, now you look at all these enzymes that we’ve got right now, but there’s more where that came from. And so our body starts to feel more free to use them again in a similar manner to the way it did when we were younger. And that’s why they work so well for pain and inflammation and arthritis and scar tissue and so on.

MARTIN: Okay, so I hear you say, be regular, take it on a regular sustained basis because your body gets used to the idea that this supply will continue, right?

MIKE: Yes. In fact, that’s why for a long time, and this is years ago, enzymes kind of got a bad rap because you had to take a lot of them and you had to take them three times a day. And you had to do it on an empty stomach.

Three times a day on an empty stomach is pretty tough for a lot of people. And a lot of formulas, even decent blends that are out there are still that way, where you do have to take them three times a day, away from food. There’s been certain developments, a lot of technologies and certainly different enzyme companies that have come into the world since then, where you can get better blends, more complete formulas, and certainly more potent ingredients. And in the case of some companies, especially ours, some really remarkable delivery systems where you don’t have to take a handful at a time. And instead of doing it three times a day, now it’s twice a day.

MARTIN: Okay, so talk about that, the delivery systems. How can they differ?

MIKE: Oh, well, like the most common one that you see, sadly, there actually are companies out there that have systemic enzymes that don’t have any kind of protection of any kind. And those are not systemic enzymes. Those enzymes are not going to get where they need to go. Most companies use some type of an enteric coating to protect their product. And enteric coatings work, there’s no question. They do work, they do keep the product intact. They just keep the enzymes viable while they travel through the lower acid levels of an empty stomach, get into the small intestine and allow them to get into the bloodstream.

MARTIN: So this would have to be some sort of a specialized capsule, right?

MIKE: Yes. But with those coatings, yeah. So those coatings that a lot of companies do use, now you’re talking about phthalates and plasticizers and solvents and acrylics and GMO corn proteins and a lot of things that a lot of people don’t wanna take anymore. And we didn’t want those things in our products. So from day one, we went to work on developing our own capsule. We call it an acid defense capsule. And it is a non-GMO plant-based cellulose capsule just like any other veggie cap you might find in some other products. What makes ours different, though, we’re using the same forms, the same molds, the same machines to make those capsules. But we’re putting a whole lot more pressure behind the material going into those forms. So we’re packing more of that into the same small space, which gives our capsule more resilience, more strength to stay intact for a longer period of time.

MARTIN: Right. So it takes longer for the acid to actually break it down, so it doesn’t.

MIKE: Exactly. But what’s really cool about it is it actually gives us the ability to dictate when that capsule is going to release. And we did the research. The average person passes a capsule through an empty stomach in about 21 to 26 minutes. So we engineered our capsule to stay intact for that amount of time, plus a small cushion to make sure that the capsule does get through the stomach completely, but that it does release in those first 12 inches of the small intestine. That’s called your duodenum and that’s where you’re going to have the highest chance of absorption of almost anything you put in your body.

MARTIN: Right. I guess that’s because the pancreatic duct is in that area too, right? The body already has designs for that technology.

MIKE: Exactly. Correct.

MARTIN: Yeah. Okay. So that’s actually really important, right? Knowing that the supplier has thought it through and has the capsule that will hold it together long enough, but not too long.

MIKE: And then it is very important. It is, in fact, it’s critical. But also, too, it really benefits the end user, not just because they’re actually getting more of the enzymes that they’re taking. But also, when you start talking about these coatings and other delivery systems, especially with tablets, yes, it does stay intact as it gets to the small intestine. But it continues traveling through the small intestine, eventually the coating breaks down. Eventually the capsule or tablet breaks down. Eventually the enzymes release and whatever hasn’t died from exposure in that really harsh environment will get into the bloodstream. When you’re releasing a more concentrated blend, a more complete blend of enzymes into the spot of the body where you have the highest chance of absorption and the least amount of exposure, it’s a win-win for everybody. And that’s why our dosing is so much lower than the vast majority of our competitors.

You don’t have to take handfuls at a time of Fibrenza. I mean, real world dosing, and this isn’t just a good testimonial that we heard once, the vast majority of our practitioners, mild to moderate conditions are just two capsules, two times a day, empty stomach. More moderate, severe, more chronic conditions tend to be three capsules, two times a day, empty stomach.

MARTIN: Right on.

MIKE: So it makes it much easier to take.

MARTIN: Yeah, that’s great. Yeah, not only easier to take, but it’s also not so bad on the pocket.

MIKE: Right. Oh yeah. There’s a huge value statement as far as value goes. Huge value statement. Because many of our competitors have larger cap count bottles than we do at a higher price point than ours is. But because their dosing is so much higher, it tends to be still a 30 day supply or maybe a 40 day supply. With ours, yes, we only had our large size of the 240 count bottle, but because our dosing is so much lower than most everybody else, that’s a six to eight week supply with real dosing, six to eight weeks out of each bottle at a lower price point. So a huge value statement for the end user.

MARTIN: Let me have you talk a bit about what the enzymes actually do in the body.

MIKE: Basically, the short version is it comes down to proteins. When you’re looking at a digestive blend of enzymes, you’re going to see enzymes for fats and starches and carbs and sugars and proteins and so on. When you look at a systemic enzyme blend, the vast majority of those enzymes are what’s called proteolytic or protein-eating enzymes. And that’s really the whole entire key as to how they work and how they do what they do. Because in our bodies, every single protein-based cell in our bodies is tagged in one of two ways. They’re either an endogenous protein, meaning they belong, they’re supposed to be there, they’re necessary, or they’re an exogenous protein, meaning they don’t belong, they’re unnecessary, redundant, maybe even harmful.

Your body will only disperse the enzymes to go after and break down those proteins that have been tagged as exogenous, the ones that don’t belong. And I say your body because the enzymes themselves when they get into your bloodstream they know nothing, they don’t have a clue of what to do, they’re literally dumb.

MARTIN: All right, so the enzyme is sort of like the bullet and the immune system has to tag the targets right.

MIKE: Exactly. That’s exactly right. And so your body tags all these proteins within it in one way or the other and disperses the enzymes to go after and break down those things that don’t belong. A great example is with scar tissue, for example.

MARTIN: Yeah, fibrosis or fibrin, right?

MIKE: Yeah, fibrosis certainly, but you cut your arm open immediately after that wound occurs, our healing mechanisms start kicking in. Little tracks of fibrous tissue are gonna track down and start the process of healing that wound. And those fibrous tracks of tissue are going to build and build and eventually form the scar that you see. You can take all the enzymes in the world and it’ll eat up any of the excess scar tissue that’s on the outside. It’ll certainly devour any adhesions or internal scar tissue that may have formed underneath, but it will never eat up so much scar tissue that it reopens that wound.

And that’s because your body has specifically tagged those cells as necessary to keep that wound healed. That’s the best way I know to explain it. Another good example is with fibroids for women. Uterine fibroids, those are protein-based matter. The uterus itself is protein-based matter. You can take all the enzymes in the world. Certainly the enzymes are not going to attack the uterus. They will go after the fibroid within it.

MARTIN: Yeah. I notice it, I have a scar on my hand from my childhood, and it used to be very noticeable. And now I’m really having to struggle to find it, because I’ve been using enzymes for some years now.

MIKE: Yeah, yeah, it’s been on it for a while.

MARTIN: It has really taken it away. I had one lady call me and tell me, listen, you should be selling this for stretch mark removal. She took it because of a fibroid. She did a three month run at a higher dose and came back saying, well, the fibroids gone and all my stretch marks are gone.

MIKE: Nice, we’ll take that.

MARTIN: Yeah, right? I think that’s possible.

MIKE: It’s exactly right.

MARTIN; Yeah. Okay, so these enzymes take away all the hardening, stiffening, binding tissues, right? So…

MIKE: Yeah, any fiber, any excess fibrous tissues, scar tissue, fibrosis, any of that. And that’s again, wherever it may be, whether it’s inside the lungs with pulmonary fibrosis or inside the uterus with endometriosis. I mean, even if it’s something as simple as adhesions from some surgery you had two or six or eight years ago or whatever, it can target that.  And I mean, it works really well for that. If it’s not in the top three success stories that we hear about here, I would say it’s easily within the top five.

MARTIN: Right on. And so when it comes to stiffening of tissues, like stiffening of muscles or binding of things, is that also helpful for that? Like flexibility for a gymnast kind of thing?

MIKE: There’s a few different things that can cause that. Lactic acid build-up in the muscle tissues can contribute to that. The enzymes in the spirit of full disclosure and honesty, I’m not going to do very much for lactic acid buildup, but anything as far as any tissue damage to the muscle tissues itself, that’s gonna be healed with some type of fibrous matter, whether usually scar tissue of some sort.

MARTIN: Yeah, I’m thinking of the overuse injuries, right?

MIKE: Yeah, okay. So yeah, tears and things like that, absolutely, yes. But there’s also additional benefit that comes to the table. So yes, you’re targeting those those harder tissues that are forming to keep to heal those areas, but you’re also talking about a huge inflammatory response and systemic enzymes are inherently anti-inflammatory. If you take, like you look at pain, for example, you’re not going to have pain without inflammation. It’s impossible. They go hand in hand. So, you reduce one, you’re going to reduce the other. And so if you boil inflammation, if you boil pain down to ground zero, you have inflammation and at the bottom of inflammation, the whole start of it starts with these, they call them circulatory immune complexes and I don’t want to lose anybody with,

MARTIN: Well, that’s quite all right. You know, this audience is quite capable of following a complex thought.

MIKE: But yeah, so it starts with circulatory immune complexes and these CICs, if you will, what ends up happening when a trauma occurs or when an injury occurs, whatever the case may be, those CICs, they replicate, they replicate and they replicate and they become more and more active and they cause inflammation to occur so that we get a pain signal that says we need to take care of this. The problem is when we get older and our enzyme supplies are lower, those CICs are free to continue that process over and over and over again, not quite indefinitely, but for a very long period of time. And so that inflammation lingers and lingers and the pain that comes with that lingers as well. So when you’re taking the enzymes, it slows that, or herbs I should say, that process. And so yes, you get that initial pain signal, but it’s not gonna be a three or 10 or 20 day thing.

The enzymes target that the source of the inflammation, breaking down those extra protein cells that are causing that inflammation, the inflammation gets reduced, the pain gets reduced with it, and once you get that inflammation out of those tissues, now they’re a whole lot more apt to heal themselves.

MARTIN: Right, and of course when you extrapolate what you just said, that really goes to just about every chronic inflammatory illness. Whether it’s in the circulatory system or in the skeletal, muscular, or muscular skeletal, or whether it’s in organs, like you can have inflamed liver and so on, right?

MIKE: Yep, exactly right.

MARTIN: Yeah, okay. So I guess what we should try and explain is, well, how specifically is Fibrenza put together that is making it so attractive? I mean, there are some features, like there’s a certain palette of enzymes and we have the concerns of efficacy and price. And how does it work together, right?

MIKE: Yeah, no, absolutely. I will absolutely with all the confidence in the world say that Fibrenza is by far the most complete blend of enzymes that exists, period. Absolutely. There’s two basic camps out there and both of them have some merit. There’s your plant-based enzyme camp and your animal-based enzyme camp. So you have enzymes out there in the plant-based world, like serrapeptase, for example. Serrapeptase is a tremendous enzyme. It’s very, very potent and it works really well for a whole lot of people. And then you have in the animal side camp, you have your enzymes like trypsin or chymotrypsin.

Again, very, very potent enzymes and they work really well for a lot of people too. But what so many practitioners that I’ve worked with over the years have found is they’ll recommend one type or the other to this person or that person. And some people respond amazingly well, but some people don’t respond at all. And the reason why that’s so hit or miss is because we’re all different. We all have different metabolisms, different blood types, different pH ranges, certainly.

which are going to have a huge impact on how well a person is going to assimilate and utilize an animal based enzyme over a plant one and vice versa. And that is really where Fibrenza shines. Because Fibrenza is the only systemic enzyme on the market that’s taken the most potent enzymes available from both sources and combined them. You will not find a single other product out there that has trypsin and chymotrypsin as well as serrapeptase, nattokinase.

Ours is the only one that includes superoxide dismutase, which is not just a really awesome enzyme, but a phenomenal antioxidant. And ours is also the only one that includes an enzyme called seaprose. We’re really, really proud of that one because seaprose is kind of the king of the hill when it comes to systemic enzymes. In fact, there’s even a study that was published that compares seaprose side by side with serrapeptase with the end result essentially being serrapeptase is good, but it’s almost as good as seaprose. So it brings with it additional potency than even serrapeptase, but the nice thing too is serrapeptase is a little bit fragile when it comes to the environment of the GI tract. And seaprose  actually is more durable in that environment. So it’s even slightly stronger than serrapeptase and more durable. So, we’re taking this more complete formula that has the best of both worlds to take that hit or miss benefit out of the equation because there’s something for every metabolism, every blood type, every pH range to respond to. Seaprose is kind of the top enzyme in our formula, as far as potency goes.

MARTIN: All right, cool. So some of the questions I get asked is, well, what if I want to be a vegan? I guess you have to take your religious decisions and base it on that, right?

MIKE: Absolutely. And I mean, like I said, there’s some merit to plant-based products. But even if you really want to get into the whole vegetarian vegan thing, like even serrapeptase, if you go back right around 35, 45 years ago, serrapeptase itself was actually harvested from the excretions, the silkworm excretion that they used to slice away the cocoon they’re trying to get out of.

So it was actually harvested from silkworms from ground zero. Yes. Now nobody’s harvesting silkworms anymore. In fact, serrapeptase, the vast majority if not every company that I’m aware of, is actually culturing it. So it is a cultured product, not, like I said, there’s nobody harvesting silkworms.

MARTIN: Okay. And when it comes to the animal ones, they are from animal parts or are they grown?

MIKE: Well, they’re pancreatic enzymes, their enzymes extracted from animals.

MARTIN: So that means butcher shop, pancreas collected and processed.

MIKE: Yeah, like ours are our ours are bovine coming from New Zealand. So it’s as good a source as we can possibly secure.

MARTIN:  Sorry, I didn’t hear you clearly, it comes from?

MIKE: You said ours are bovine from New Zealand.

MARTIN: So that’s bovine New Zealand. So not pork, it’s a cow.

MIKE: Bovine, yeah.

MARTIN: Yeah. Great. Okay, what else could we think of saying? What did I not ask you?

MIKE: Well, the one thing I will touch on, and it’s a big deal to us, because I’m not aware of any other company that does it. I just touched on the reliability of the enzymes and why it’s a more complete formula and it takes that hit or miss benefit out of the equation. It’s important, I think it’s important to relay and convey the message that, because of the reliability, because of the potency, because of how complete the formula is, and certainly because of the delivery system,  it is also the only guaranteed systemic enzyme in the market that I’m aware of. Don’t get me wrong, everybody guarantees freshness and everybody guarantees potency, and that’s great, and we do too, but we guarantee benefit. And I think that’s a bold statement, not just because, like I said, I think we’re the only ones that do.

But I think it’s a bold statement because when you think about a lot of the benefits of systemic enzymes, pain, inflammation, arthritis, scar tissue, fibromyalgia, uterine fibroids, fibrocystic breasts, endometriosis, tons of cardiovascular benefits, a lot of those benefits are purely subjective benefits. It’s entirely up to the end user. Do I feel better or don’t I?

We guarantee that you will feel better. You know what I’m saying? I mean, there’s some things that you can quantify. Like if you, a great example, if you’ve never taken systemic enzymes before, and you look at your blood under a dark field microscope, you’re going to see two things in well north of 80% of people. You’re gonna see a spiderweb, like a white spiderweb going through the blood, and that’s excess fibrin. And you’ll see a lot of the blood cells kind of all clumped up and stuck together. And that’s from a protein film that forms around it.

And that is present in well north of 80% of people. And I’m not exaggerating at all. You take two or three capsules of Fibrenza and within 45 to 60 minutes of that first dose, assuming it’s an empty stomach, within 45 to 60 minutes of that, 90 plus percent of that excess fibrin will be gone and 90 plus percent of those blood cells will be floating freely from each other. So as far as photographic picture-proof evidence that it’s doing something. Yes, we do have that. I have numerous pictures of it. So yes, there is plenty of evidence that’s benefiting the body, but most people just care about, do I feel better or don’t I? And we’ve got that too.

MARTIN: That’s fantastic. Mike, I’d like to ask you about this other product that you have, Abzorb. I think that’s focusing more on the digestive tract than on the systemic. Is that right?

MIKE: Yes, but it’s not a, it’s a blend of digestive enzymes. That’s not a digestive enzyme product, if that makes sense.

MARTIN: To me. Yes.

MIKE: It is a front to back, top to bottom. You still take it away from food, but it is a top to bottom front to back GI wellness product. It cleanses the gut. It hydrates the gut.

It even, the vast majority of people are far more acidic than they should be. It actually contributes a tiny bit to helping kind of alkalize the gut. It doesn’t make it alkaline, but it just calms down the acidity, if you will. And then after that, it’s followed up with a bunch of probiotics, plus a prebiotic, to help with that good bacteria in play. It’s an awesome, awesome product. The whole design of it is absolutely fantastic and it’s easy to take. It’s two capsules once a day, empty stomach. Each bottle is a 150 day supply. I think that’s right, two and a half months. Or no, sorry. It’s a two and a half month supply. It’s 150 count bottle, two and a half month supply. Sorry about that. But it works really, really well. And I absolutely emphatically believe that it is step number one for anybody that makes that decision, I want to invest in my health. I want to eat the right foods. I want to take the right supplements. Where do I start? Abzorb is absolutely that starting point. It helps undo a lot of the things that you’ve done to your body. It helps prepare your body to accept everything you’re about to spend your money investing in your time, investing your, your, again, financial investment in supplements and diets, choosing the right foods and things like that. You’re going to make that investment in yourself and it’s going to prepare your body to accept it.

MARTIN: Alright.

MIKE: In fact there’s a lady that it’s like a little tiny story, in nowhere ville Missouri. I always tell this story because it’s awesome. She has a little sign on her window right in her front door says everything beyond this point will do more for you if you take Abzorb, and then there’s a picture of a bottle of Abzorb. And that’s totally true because everything else in that store is going to bring more to the table for the person taking it if they start there.

MARTIN: Alright. So this is not just for the sick person. This is for the person who just realizes, well, the health begins in the gut. And I’m going to fine tune or prep up my gut for the best absorption.

MIKE: Yeah, that’s exactly right.

MARTIN: So, you named it well then, Abzorb.

MIKE: Yep, we spelled it with Z. So it’s a little different. But yes, it is definitely named well. Appropriately. And basically what it comes down to is so you have your diet and your lifestyle and all that stuff and that’s great. And whatever you enjoy, you do you.

But if you’re not making really well thought out decisions and you don’t have to be a saint and you don’t need to run marathons every day and you don’t need to be vegan, but not so good decisions have not so good consequences. And so years of a less than desirable lifestyle are gonna leave your GI tract, your intestines are lined with these little fingers called villi.

And those villi, they’re supposed to stand up on end and they’re supposed to grab these nutrients and they’re supposed to pull them up into the bloodstream. And that’s absorption right there. That’s how that takes place. And what happens is a less than desirable lifestyle and diet are gonna start laying down, weighing down those villi and they’re gonna start laying down flat. They’re gonna be pulling less nutrients out of the food that we’re eating, certainly less out of the supplementation that we’re putting into play and they’re going to get kind of caked over by all this sludge and gunk and bile. Abzorb is going to come in with these enzymes and break down that sludge and gunk and bile and get them standing back on end like they’re supposed to. And that gives you capability to absorb a whole lot more just by itself. But then you bring other things to the table like addressing the more than likely an overly acidic environment, bring a little hydration into play and certainly probiotics with a prebiotic, it’s a real complete gut health product. And the testimonials that we get on that product, there’s no rhyme or reason to them. They’re all over the map. Oh, my vision’s improving. Oh, I have better, more deep and restful sleep. I have better cognitive function. I had one lady tell me that her hair has never felt better in her life. Maybe Abzorb was the mechanism, but Abzorb does nothing for hair, I promise.

MARTIN: Well, in your case, right? We have not found the missing link, right? The point with the Abzorb is that it makes absorption improved. So,

MIKE: But that was my point is there’s no rhyme or reason to the testimonials that we get. And a lot of people get attributed to Abzorb. But the reality is Abzorb was the mechanism and that’s it. These people were doing all these different things all along. It’s just they’re just now realizing them because they’re actually getting more of what they’ve been putting into their bodies this whole time. So they were taking vitamin K, they were taking their fish oil, they were taking their zinc, they were doing their B complex, they were doing all these different things but their body wasn’t, was realizing only a fraction of everything they were putting in. And now that their bodies are realizing all these different things they’ve been doing, now they’re seeing all these different benefits that they started to try and realize years ago.

MARTIN: Yep. That is very good. So it really is an investment that has a lot of leverage. It’s a multiplying effect, right?

MIKE: Certainly.

MARTIN: Because when you take this, you’ll get much more out of everything else you do.

MIKE: That’s exactly right. And there’s different ways to do it. Like, and I have actually both of them in my own family. My mother, she loves Abzorb and she swears by, she’s been on it for years and she never goes a day without it. My father on the other hand, he is substantially less interested in taking pills. He’s not a fan. But he sees some merit to certain things. And so with Abzorb, they’ll take a whole bottle and go through two, two and a half months with it. But then he won’t touch it again for four, six, seven months. Then he’ll get another bottle and go through the bottle and then he won’t touch it for four, six, seven months. And so people do it differently. Like I said, my mom just loves how she feels on it. So she sticks to it every single day. But even doing it as my father does, there is some merit to them. I mean, you live your life and you try and do the right things right. And you make a few good decisions here and there. And the benefits can be lasting, not indefinitely, but last you a while where you get back on it again. You know what I mean?

MARTIN: Yeah, well, I want quality of life. We started with talking about youth and enzyme levels are associated.

MIKE: Totally.

MARTIN: So the reverse is also true. Enzyme levels will help me function at a more youthful manner. So I do want to up my enzyme level in my latter years because I want to live longer with the good level of enzymes. So that will mean that however, however many days I have left, I want to leave them mobile, flexible and able to wipe my own whatever rather than stuck in a wheelchair drilling.

MIKE: Oh, certainly.

MARTIN: To end. Right.

MIKE: Certainly. There’s a sentence I heard, I wish I could remember who said it to me, but she said, if you don’t take care of your body for the first half of your life, how do you expect it to take care of you for the second half of your life? And I think that’s well said.

MARTIN: Yeah, well said. And the enzymes are one of those things that you need to do.

MIKE: I think they’re absolutely critical. Absolutely.

MARTIN: Besides hydration and exercise and not filling your body with toxins.

MIKE: Oh, certainly.

MARTIN: It will be right there in the top five.

MIKE: Yeah.

MARTIN: Okay. Mike, there’s one other product that you guys make. It’s called LipiCept and it’s totally different from the others, right? The purpose is different. What would you like to talk about it for a bit anyway?

MIKE: Certainly. It is an absolute monster for people with cholesterol issues. It is an absolute monster. It’s incredibly reliable. It works every single time. And the entire design of the product was to not have side effects. Zero side effects. No interactions, no contraindications with anything. Even if you’re currently on a statin, you can take this right alongside it and it’s not going to interact in any way.

MARTIN: Well, let me let me butt in with this. With statins, you’re actually blocking creation of cholesterol. Which is actually detrimental. I mean, I know that people on statin get joint pain and they become stupid. They become,

MIKE: Diabetic. I’ve heard liver failure. I’ve heard diabetes. I have heard it’s a litany of different things that they can go south.

MARTIN: So how is this not going to cause over reduction of cholesterol?

MIKE: All right, so this is the best part about it. So one of them, well, first of all, it’s important to recognize cholesterol starts and ends in the liver, period. And the whole premise behind the statin is to suppress the liver’s production of cholesterol as you just touched on. Suppress one of the most efficient processes your body has, of course there’s going to be side effects.

LipiCept does not work that way. Instead, LipiCept totally trusts the fact that generally speaking the liver knows what it’s doing. And instead focuses solely on how the liver accepts the cholesterol that we put in through our diets, the way that the liver processes and synthesizes that cholesterol. And then most importantly, the way it redistributes that cholesterol back into the body, making sure it’s the good cholesterol that goes in and the bad cholesterol that goes out with our waste. And that is the entire start to finish of how the product works. And that’s why there’s no side effects because it’s not trying to hinder something the liver’s fully capable of doing. And like I said, the biggest thing too is blocking the pathways that bad cholesterol gets absorbed back into our bodies. It blocks those pathways so that with nowhere else to go, the bad cholesterol can’t be absorbed and it ends up going out with the waste. Period. That’s the entire functionality of it.

MARTIN: So I guess the final effect will be that the HDL will remain and the LDL will get lower?

MIKE: LDL lowers, HDL actually does tend to go up, not as pronounced as the LDL drops. We don’t sell direct to end users here. But with this product, we have gotten more testimonials than any of our other products combined. And it’s always people sending us their before and after blood work. And I mean, the worst results that we’ve had sent to us was a 19% drop in LDL in 90 days. That’s the worst that we’ve seen.

MARTIN: And typical would be what?

MIKE: Well, the best that we’ve seen is 40%. So if we’re taking averages, then you’re looking at a 30% drop. But I don’t know that I would call that.

MARTIN: I feel like that’s a median, not an average.

MIKE: Yeah, I don’t know that I would call that a reliable average.

MARTIN: All right.

MIKE: But yeah, 19 to 40% is what we’ve seen from everything that’s been sent into us. The product is incredibly reliable. I mentioned that we guarantee our products earlier. This product is no different. And with this product, I mean, like with Fibrenza, we push our guarantee very hard and our return rate is less than half of 1% for 12 years running. We’ll take that all day long. With Lipicept, I think we’ve had three returns in seven years and I think 14 or so thousand bottles out there. I think we’ve had three bottles returned. And one of those in the spirit of full disclosure, one of those bottles actually wasn’t even open.

MARTIN: Well,

MIKE: But we still counted any. We still counted it.

MARTIN: All right. Awesome. Well, I think that pretty much does it for us for today. Thank you very much, Michael. It’s been much appreciated. I really like getting educated and I really love sharing it with our audience.

MIKE: I love being here and I can do this anytime you like.

MARTIN: That’s great. This has been Mike Kramarczyk from HCP Supplements and I’m Martin Pytela at Life-Enthusiast.com. Thank you for being with us today.

MIKE: Thank you.

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