Our skin is our largest organ, and our first line of defense! Taking care of the condition and appearance of our skin is not an act of vanity, it is a necessity!

Scott: Welcome everybody. This is the Life Enthusiast online radio and TV network, restoring vitality to you and the planet! I’m your co-host, Scott Paton, joining me, as usual, is Martin Pytela, health coach at Life Enthusiast. This is a very special episode because we’re going to be talking about the outside of the body: things that we put onto our skin as opposed to things that we put into our mouth and ingest, which oftentimes we cover on this show. But before we get to that, Martin, how are you doing today?

Martin: Well, my voice is a little hoarse but other than that, I’m doing great. Thank you for asking.

Scott: Good. All right. So one of my favorite products from Life Enthusiast is by a brand Skin Sorcery. And you wouldn’t know that I’m 94 years old based on the way my beautiful skin is. (laughing) Not quite 94, but one of the reasons that I have good skin is because of Skin Sorcery. I use it every day. When I get up, after I shave, and when I go to bed. And I have to say that I’m absolutely delighted with it. So there’s my unrequested testimonial for the brand. Martin, let’s talk a little bit about what these products are.

Martin: The material scientist behind this brand was actually working in the electronics and has a few patents to his name, but somehow his wife got him interested in making a decent skincare product. They wanted to find or make something that would not have any nasty ingredients, but that would still protect the oils from going rancid. So there he went and he settled on silver, colloidal silver. Colloidal silver is a strong antibacterial, anti-microbial agent. He ended up mixing his products in such a way that they actually are automatically self-preserving and they automatically also protect the skin itself from unwanted microbial invasions.

Scott: So he was able to make the product with no toxic ingredients?! I mean, it’s amazing to me how often we hear about this ingredient or that ingredient that is in skincare products that’s actually really toxic for you.

Martin: Yeah, they’re known as the parabens and they have all the names we can’t even pronounce, but this product has nothing in it that’s got that nasty chemical name whatsoever. He uses regular oils like Argan oil or beeswax… things that are of plant origin, natural origin, these are well known and well trusted in cosmetics. The part that’s different and novel and wonderful is that they are not poisoned with anything toxic. There might be only like 2% of the bad stuff in the ordinary department store cosmetics, but still, why would you want to put it on your skin?

Scott: And also Martin, if you are doing it for 60 years, a lot of this stuff accumulates in your body.

Martin: Yes, it will add up, that’s absolutely correct.

Scott: So let’s talk about Skin Sorcery products, the one I’d like to start off with is the Actif Protection Complex.

Martin: There are two moisturizers, one that we call Actif, and the other one that we call Chic. They complement one another; the Actif has an outdoor protection to it, so when you spend a lot of time in the elements like sun, wind, rain, if you’re going to the beach or golfing or that sort of thing, you would want to have that on hand. Whereas the chic is a little simpler, costs a little bit less and is great for indoor life. Either way, they have been enriched by an important ingredient, hyaluronic acid (HA). The hyaluronic acid is this magic tool that the department store cosmetics only contain a tiny amount of, and then proudly announce: “we have HA.” HA holds about 10 times its volume in water. So whenever there is a molecule of hyaluronic acid...

Knowing your MTHFR status is a gamechanger! Today, Elijah Free shares some theory of health outcomes as related to the MTHFR genetic mutations, affecting folate, vitamin D, and other health issues.

Podcast 396: Genetics and Viruses – MTHFR

Martin: Hello, everybody! This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast Podcast! With me today is Elijah Free, the master herbalist at Earth Friend Herb. Hello Elijah!

Elijah: Hi Martin! It’s great to be here again. We have recorded a lot of podcasts together!

Martin: Yes we have! We have been in many conversations, you and I, trying to explain the principles of health, the principles ofherbalism, and how the products that you have formulated have helped people.

Elijah: Thank you very much, Martin! As always, I am just grateful for your expertise and your amazing company. For those of you who don’t know this, Martin is our main distributor. Martin and I have worked together for years, and I am sure if you have ever talked to Martin, you know how great Martin is. He is one of the most knowledgeable people I have met, really, that you can talk to. So I just want to say: thank you so much, Martin, for carrying our products, for being such a wonderful exponent of them, for sharing them with everyone, and for talking with me today, thank you!

Martin: Thank you, Elijah! Today, I would like to talk to you about your ideas as they relate to genetics and the current situation with the Coronavirus. I will now launch into a slide presentation that we have named Genetics and Viruses and the Possible Connection with the COVID-19, as you can see on the screen now. Our guest is Elijah Free, the master herbalist. Tell us, Elijah, why you should be heard? What’s your background, and how do you actually get these insights that allude to so many people?

Elijah: Thank you for asking! I have talked about my practical training for many years, but this is new for me, I think this will be the first time I have ever publicly spoken about my background like this, so thank you, Martin, for the opportunity. I have had very wonderful training. I started back all the way in 1968, I was a wartime paramedic. I was part of a special training program to replace doctors on the battlefield. But I decided that the war was not something I was highly into. So after that, I went into private practice, where I am a master herbalist, I own Earth Friend Herb company, I am also the formulator and designer and researcher of all of these products.

I also have a very wonderful practice where I rebuild broken hands, feet, damaged spines, and so on. So people over the years have called me lots of things, Martin, I often hear words like Shaman, or Medicine Man, or something like that, because my whole life I have abilities that other people don’t. 

So about five or six years ago, I found out that I was on the autistic spectrum, which made a lot of sense. Actually, my true ability is understanding how the universe works, which may sound a little odd, but I have a number of abilities where you could say the universe speaks to me, like healing, as an herbalist the plants speak to me, animals, all sorts of things speak to me. When I say that I understand how the universe works, the main place that I focus this is on the human body. So I work with a number of people with a number of different types of ailments.

There’s something called MTHFR, which is methylene tetra hydro folate reductase. This is basically a genetic problem. A lot of people have this issue, some tests show that sometimes up to 30-40% can actually be affected. There are two genes, one called C677T, and the other is A1298C. The C677T is fairly common. I myself have it, and actually the other gentleman here does, too! That’s how common it is. So I have been kind of a test case for myself. By the way, this is something that you can check yourself.

Let’s talk about the immune system, and how we can support it in order to avoid intensive care, even though there is no doubt that we will all meet the Coronavirus eventually.

Podcast 395: How to Avoid the Ventilator:

Welcome! This is Martin Pytela, presenting to you about the dangers of being caught in an emergency room, in intensive care, and being intubated. That is probably the worst outcome we can imagine for a person these days and the consequences of what we are dealing with right now. I titled it How to Avoid The Ventilator After You Meet the Coronavirus. There is no doubt that we will meet the Coronavirus. I don’t think that any one of us will be deciding if, it is when. And of course, the reason for that is the following: It’s just like any other virus. It’s going to spread through society. Eventually, we will encounter it. So we get to control the when, and we get to control the outcomes.

My name is Martin Pytela, I work as a health coach and a Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor at Life Enthusiast. I was also trained as a clinical hypnotherapist and I spent a good amount of time as a trainer in the computer industry before I became a health coach. I’ve lectured plenty. I was a systems analyst and management consultant. That’s where I went to school. I had the equivalent of an MBA in business administration and I was working in that field until I realized that the only way I was going to get out of the mercury toxicity hell that I got into after 12 mercury amalgam fillings were put in my mouth and I became very sick. The moment came that I had to start fixing myself because I was not going to be fixed by the mainstream health system. They are not set up for that. I realized that the healthcare industry shouldn’t be really called healthcare. It should be called the treatment industry. They’re not really interested in curing things. They’re interested in treating things.

“Root cause resolution” is the term used by functional medicine practitioners. The part of the medical system that calls itself that, functional medicine, focuses on cellular function rather than on dealing with symptoms. And when we resolve the cause of the malfunction, we usually have success, a health success. But this is not what’s being practiced in the mainstream medical system. As the metabolic typing advisor, I’ve now had a decade of practice, and I’ve been working in the field for about 35 years now.

So let’s talk about the immune system. What’s its normal response versus the system overload that lands a person in intensive care? When I try to explain to somebody the immune system, I use the nightclub model. Think of it this way: you have three roles involved in managing the flow and the happiness of the guests. You need to have somebody at the door keeping out the people that you don’t want to have in the club, but you need to keep out only the most obvious troublemakers because if you keep out everybody, there’s not going to be a whole lot going on in the club. You have the bouncer, that’s the person that’s inside the club that gets to eliminate the trouble once it erupts on the inside, and of course the bartenders, they’re involved in lubricating the crowd with alcohol. That’s the business of the nightclub, after all, selling you the alcohol, but they also need to be careful enough not to oversell it or over serve it, and they also need to be alert enough to point out the obvious trouble. Here we’re going to focus on the part that’s called the bouncer. The part of the system that’s involved in dealing with trouble once it’s on the inside.

So why do I say that we will all eventually have to get the virus? Because microbes are transmitted throughout the community, throughout the society. They get to move on the wind, on the water,

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Podcast 394: Boost Immunity – Fight Fungus, Yeast, and Molds – Soften Fibrinous Tissue

Martin: Hello everybody! This is the Life Enthusiast online radio and internet TV network. My name is Martin Pytela, the Health Coach. With me is Elijah Free, the Master Herbalist at Earth Friend Herbs. Thank you for being here, Elijah!

Elijah: Hi Martin. Thank you. I’m really grateful for the opportunity to talk and meet all the great folks who have used our products for so many years. Hi everyone!

Martin: How about we talk about the Immunagen, Fibro-Ease, and Fungus-Ease. How do they relate to one another, and why do we think that people should consider them both together and separately?

Elijah: Wonderful. So let’s just first define these three products. Immunagen is obviously for your immune system. Sometimes, it’s really hard to come up with good names for products, you know. So anyhow, the fungus formula is designed pretty much strictly for fungus, mold, and yeast. Then the Fibro-Ease formula for fibromyalgia. The reason that we put this together is that a lot of people think it’s an immune problem, it actually isn’t. It’s actually a chemical chain problem. But we decided to put them together for this particular interview, just so that you can see the difference between these.

Fibro-Ease

I’d like to start with the Fibro-Ease formula. This was the first time I put together a group of formulas quite a few years ago, I made it for a patient, she had such bad fibromyalgia [Elijah is talking about the hardening of the connective tissue that covers muscle strands, not the general pain and fatigue syndrome that has been lately called ‘Fibro’.] 

She was probably in her early sixties, she had a third-degree black belt in Aikido, had her own Aikido studio, and her tissue was really hard. So one night I was working on her, and I had actually just had a humongous piece of chocolate cake, chocolate inspires me, what can I say? Suddenly I went: Oh, I understand what causes this! And the chemistry danced in front of my eyes, and I went home and I designed the formula. It took me just as long as it was to write it down. It was ready in three weeks because the tinctures take a while to make. I gave it to her and I said: No charge, let’s try it out. She came in the next week and asked: Could it possibly work that fast? Well, yeah, I guess it did. 

In other words, the first of these formulas really far exceeded design expectations. Now, fibromyalgia, or fibrous conditions,

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Podcast 393: Detoxing from Toxic Heavy Metals with Zeolite (transcript)

Hello, this is Martin Pytela, and today I would like to talk to you about the toxic burden – industrial society’s toxic burden. I have prepared a slide presentation, so I’d like to go through it with you. The title is Detoxing from toxic heavy metals with Zeolite: how our industrial societies have brainwashed you into giving yourself heavy metal poisoning with mercury, lead, cadmium, cesium, uranium, plutonium, and more.

So, Who am I? Well, my name is Martin Pytela. I work as a health coach. I’m also the CEO of Life Enthusiast, and I’m a CMTA – Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor. In functional medicine, we focus on root cause resolution. This is a really important point. And the metabolic typing advisor is a person who has been educated about how genetics and nutrition intersect. (** please note I am not a doctor, and cannot give medical advice. I can use my training to help you observe and understand your own body**). We have gone far and wide to understand how there are genetic differences in people and how some of us are adapted well to certain diets.

In fact, that is critical. Biological individuality overrides the statistics. We will talk about that some other time, but let it be known that there is no such thing as the ideal diet. There is an ideal diet for you, which may not be the same diet for your neighbor, your wife, your husband, and so on. Back in my earlier life, I also trained as a clinical hypnotherapist, and I also did a whole lot of training in my earlier incarnation, when I was in the computer industry. My bachelor’s degree is in computer science and business administration. I spent 20 years working in the tech field. I was engaged in the PC revolution. Those were interesting times. My background… I want to share some of my life, just so you understand where I’m coming from. I grew up in a typical family. My dad was a veterinarian. I was raised believing in science. I was raised believing in the rational mind. I was raised to trust professionals.

I went to the university, got myself educated, and I believed in society, that it was built for everyone’s benefit. When I was 25, and freshly immigrated into Canada, I got my first job: it was a unionized job in a sawmill. I was just learning to speak English, so I took an entry level labor job. It was good. Good for character building. But anyway, 90 days in I got my ticket, and I became a full member of the union, and with it came health insurance and dental insurance. And so I went to the dentist and I trusted the person. I thought that they would act for my benefit. In retrospect, I don’t think it was like that, but because it was all covered by insurance, I didn’t really care. So I came out of the appointment with this recommendation: “you need fillings, you need 12 of them,

 

Immunity is basically the ability of our bodies to fight off potential danger. Immune health is now more important than ever!

Listen to Martin breaking down the most important information about how to manage your immune system, and fight off viral (and other) infections all year round, not just in these dangerous times!

Links mentioned in the video:

Khan Academy – Immune System 

Life Enthusiast – Cold, Flu & Immunity

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Podcast 392: How to manage your immune system for health

How to manage your immune system for health, and how to navigate viral and other infections in these dangerous times? First of all, my name is Martin Pytela. I am the CEO of Life Enthusiast. I’m also a health coach and I’m a CMTA, that stands for Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor. Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor is a branch of functional medicine approach to understanding how the genetics and the human health intersect. We learn about how our bodies are preselected genetically to certain diets, but we are not going to talk about that today. My past education: I was trained as a clinical hypnotherapist, and in my previous incarnation I have a degree in computer science and business administration. I spent 20 years working in the hi-tech industry as a trainer, tech support and sales, and I lectured people in various ways.

How I got into health has much to do with my early life. At 25 years of age, I visited a dentist, I ended up with 12 mercury amalgam fillings. Mercury turns out to be one of the most toxic things you can put into your body. And very soon after I had these 12 fillings installed, I started falling apart. I ended up with back pain, plantar fasciitis, and carpal tunnel syndrome, and I developed allergies to pollens, it all really was starting out as the breakdown of the microbiome in the gut. The mercury is very toxic, and it’s very toxic to the immune system, and it’s toxic to all the systems in the body. And in my attempt to fix myself, I first went to the professionals, I went to the medical mainstream, and then to the alternative, the chiropractors, the naturopaths, the osteopaths, and then further afield, all manner of therapies. Most of them focused on treating the symptoms.

They are competent people, but they just are like this. To a man with a hammer, most things look like a nail. They were following the symptoms, they were not asking, but what the cause of this is. So eventually after about 10 years of trying, I had this moment when I realized that I was going to have to help myself or else spend the rest of my life in misery, declining into a disability. In the process of that, I started reading and studying and analyzing, and thank God I was trained as an analyst so I could figure out the hows and the whys of things. And sure enough, eventually, it dawned on me that it was the mercury. So since about the year 1995, I’ve been working as a health coach, since 2001 we have been online with Life Enthusiasts. I have now counseled probably thousands of people.

So let’s talk about this. The immune system, its role, and its purpose, and regulation challenges. How does the immune system regulate itself and how does it all work? Let’s talk about the why, why the immune system? The ingress pathways, ingress as in stuff gets in. First of all, the immune system is protecting us from unwanted incoming traffic. So first of all, of course, the obvious, the cuts, the punctures, and the wounds. And certainly, you can see the system in action. If for example, you get a cut that gets infected by some microbes,

How to prevent your body from unwanted mutated cell growth? Support your overall health with Mitopinol – a brand new wonderful product by RemedyLink!

Podcast 391 about Mitopinol

Martin: Hello everybody! This is Martin Pytela for the Life Enthusiast online radio, internet, and television network! Well, mostly, it is on the internet. Today I am here with Spencer Feldman, the CEO and chief formulator at Remedy Link, and we are ready to talk to you today about the number two killer, the second most common way to end your life prematurely, at least in Western industrialized societies, but it is probably on the rise anywhere the industrial lifestyle reaches. Anyway, hello, Spencer Feldman!

Spencer: Hey Martin, it is nice to be back.

Martin: So what do you think? Are we able to explain to people why they should attend to their health in a preventive manner? Why should they actually do things that don’t seem to have a payoff, other than that they won’t check out prematurely in pain?

Spencer: Well, the way the body is designed is that it has huge reserve capacity. And what that means is most people won’t have symptoms until a situation becomes relatively dire. I think if somebody waits for something to feel bad, they are already behind the curve.

Martin: Right. Yeah, the definition of a tumor, if I remember it right, is that by the time a tumor can be palpated, it already has its own blood supply, and it already has a life of its own, right?

Spencer: We’ll get into it. The blood supply happens at around half a cubic centimeter.

Martin: Yeah, half a cubic centimeter is about the size of the eraser on my pencil, not very thick.

Spencer: This is why I like to do an ultrasound. When I work with female clients, there is a piece of equipment I have that they actually wear, that simulates their breasts with five tumors in them. And I have my clients go and put this on, it is like a giant silicon apron, it looks like a Halloween gag, and then they can go and practice manual testing for tumors. And I always say: out of all the tests you do in medical school, this is the one you want to pass. You pass when you find all of them, and I am not going to tell you how many there are, and you have to find them all.

Most breast cancers are found by women in the shower, so I would like to see high schools have this tool in health class, where all the girls are shown how to palpate breast cancer for themselves. Because I want to find these things as soon as humanly possible, and that means you have to be good at doing this, it is a manual skill. If you look at cancer statistics, the top three are lung, colon, and then breast for women and prostate for men. Now for lung cancer, you know, just don’t smoke cigarettes, okay? Colon cancer, I think a lot of that is being caused obviously by diet, but more specifically, when cooked meats have high temperatures, right?

Martin: Deep frying. I think the deep fryer is the most evil invention of kitchen appliances.

Spencer: I don’t mind a deep fryer if it is fresh oil every time. I fry my food all the time.

Martin: But who’s going to have that? Not in a restaurant for sure!

Spencer: Right, not in a restaurant, it is too expensive! You know what it costs to put in a whole batch of fresh olive oil every time to fry something? It is not going to happen. So there’s deep frying in damaged oil, but even beyond that, it is not just that, that’s the breakdown of the fat, right? Then there is the changing of the proteins that happens to meat at high temperatures. So my meat is typically cooked in a slow cooker, cooked with low temperatures.

Martin: Right, braised, and boiled, and stewed.

Spencer: Right, and then I’ll take it out and I’ll sear it for a few seconds for flavor, for the Maillard reaction. So, that’s the colon.

How we can build cardiovascular health? What are the physiological causes of heart disease in humans?

Podcast 390 about Rubeplex

Martin: Hello everyone! This is Martin Pytela for the Life Enthusiast podcast, the internet, radio, and television show! Today we have the pleasure of talking to Spencer Feldman, the CEO and chief formulator at Remedy Link. Spencer comes to us with a very important message. Spencer, much like myself, had to develop his methods outside of the mainstream. He is not a classically trained medical scientist. He has come to his wisdom through the school of hard knocks, learning in the field, which from my perspective is way more valuable because when I was trying to get help with my medical problems, I certainly did not get help from the well trained professionals. Maybe he can tell us more about that. Spencer Feldman, good day!

Spencer: It is nice to be here again Martin! So I thought today we might talk a little bit about vascular disease, or heart disease – you know, what causes it, and what kinds of things we might be able to do to put ourselves on the track to healing.

Martin: Yeah! Well, vascular disease, that to me would be the most popular way of ending your life prematurely in North America, in the Western industrialized society, right?

Spencer: Yeah. One of the first things I remember reading was that humans are one of the few species that get heart disease. Guinea pigs, fruit bats, monkeys, and humans are an anomaly out of the 4,000 animal species. Only these four don’t make their own vitamin C. What it’s called is a pseudo gene; the L-gulono-gamma-lactone oxidase gene is what makes vitamin C, that’s a mouthful, right? And in us, it’s a non-operating gene, that’s why it’s called a pseudo gene. So to give you another example of a pseudo gene, we have the genes that code for tails and fur, but they don’t operate. So that’s what gives us our human form. I don’t really know if the people that end up with wolfman syndrome are people who maybe have those genes turned on. I am not really sure.

Martin: I’ve heard of people with a vestigial tail for example.

Spencer: Sure, right. There are pseudo genes that we don’t want on, you know, I don’t want a tail, but there are some pseudo genes that I think would have been good if we had fully functional. One of them is the one that makes urate oxidase, which is what helps a person to get rid of uric acid. And because that’s a pseudo gene in humans, we have a propensity towards gout. Another one is the photo lysate gene, which is what allows the DNA to be repaired from UV damage. And we don’t have that gene running, so we are prone to skin cancer. And the one for the vitamin C is not an operating gene, we can go through all the steps of creating vitamin C, except the last one, so we don’t make vitamin C.

Martin: I guess I would put on the margin here that our creator was pretty sloppy.

Spencer: Well, to be fair, what we do have instead is a spectacular vitamin C recycling system. Our red blood cells are different from most other animals in that on the surface of the cells there is a mechanism to recycle vitamin C very efficiently. So we don’t need that much, but we still need it. And so I believe this is the entryway for explaining why heart disease is so common in humans and so rare in the animal kingdom. What I’d like to do is I’d like to take your audience on the path of discovery I took about trying to understand why we have such a tendency towards heart disease as humans, how that progresses, and what we can do about it.

Martin: Before you launch that, I would just like to pre-frame it with the following. Heart disease is very prevalent, most people don’t know that they have it. In fact, for many of us, the first warning we receive is a fatal heart attack.

We are all feeling uncertain, some of us even nervous or afraid, about the current coronavirus situation. Martin and Spencer discuss their favorite strategies to prevent and fight any viral infection, including the new COVID-19 causing a strand of coronavirus. There is no need to panic, knowledge is a powerful weapon, and these tips include using tools and ingredients you probably already have at home!

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Podcast 389: Hacking the Epidemic with Spencer Feldman

Martin: Hello everybody! Martin Pytela here for the Life Enthusiast online radio, coming to you across the internet and through the galactic waves! Today with me is Spencer Feldman from Remedy Link! He is my favorite product formulator. I listen to what he has to say because he has a mind that understands science, but can translate it into accessible language. So, here we are! Spencer Feldman, welcome!

Spencer: Thanks, Martin! I thought we could talk a little bit about the coronavirus today.

Martin: From the public reactions out there, it really feels to a lot of people like an existential threat.

Spencer: There are still a lot of unknowns about this virus. We don’t really know what the rate of hospitalization is, we don’t really know what the death rate is. And if the rate of hospitalization gets to a certain point, and all the ICUs are closed, and people can’t get put on ventilators, and the drugs aren’t available, then the rate of hospitalization becomes the death rate, or close to it. And as you are aware I am sure, not only is China not making raw materials, but now India is also saying that they are not going to be exporting a number of pharmaceuticals because one, they don’t have the raw materials and two, they need them for their own people. So specialization of labor has a lot of great advantages, but it also makes for a fragile system.

We have two issues with the coronavirus: how it will physically play out in terms of people getting sick, and then how it will play out from the perception of it socially. So for instance, Iran let out a huge number of prisoners. Now if the police stations are closed because they are quarantined, and the prisons are opened up, and there is not enough food to go around, you can imagine what that does to a society.

When the coronavirus started to be on my radar in January, what I wanted to do was think about what happens if you can’t go to a hospital, because it is overrun and they have no supplies. So what can you do at home? How do you MacGyver this? How do you hack the coronavirus? And so I have made a series of five videos for my Youtube channel, and I thought I would give you a brief idea of what is going through my mind about coronavirus, and how I am preparing.

Martin: Yes, please! Let’s have it!

Spencer: So the first thing I thought was that China is the country that is making all the masks. What happens if masks run out? So in the first video, I explain how you can take cotton or flannel or a t-shirt, and you can mix up two solutions. One is copper and zinc sulfate in water, and the other is 5% vinegar. This is not my idea, this is based on a patent that is linked in one of the videos that says: hey, if you have a face mask and you have layers and one layer is 5% acid and another layer is copper and zinc sulfate, then as the virus passes through, it can become denatured. That is great! These are common chemicals; copper sulfate is available by the ton because they use it as a fungicide on crops. They use it as a mineral for crops. It is used all over the place.

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Podcast 388 about Hydrogen:

Scott: Welcome everybody. This is the Life Enthusiast online radio and TV network, restoring vitality to you and the planet. I am your host, Scott Patton. And joining me is our other host Martin Pytela, the health coach at Life Enthusiast. Hey, Martin, how are you doing today?

Martin: Scott, it is a glorious day, absolutely glorious.

Scott: It certainly is. We both happen to be in British Columbia, Canada right now, and the sun is shining here. I happen to be on Vancouver Island, Martin is in the interior. Hopefully, the sun is shining there as well, Martin.

Martin: Well, even if it wasn’t, you know, I feel the inner sunshine, which is a good thing. Like when you wake up balanced, somehow the sense of joy is available to you. And as I have learned more and more about balancing my pH, the power of hydrogen, there has to be enough of the right ions in the body. When you are overly alkaline, you feel under-motivated and kind of depressed. When you are overly acidic, you feel kind of anxious and overdriven. But when you are in the middle, balanced, things feel right. And so today I got out of bed thinking “I am getting it right, I feel good”.

Scott: Excellent! I am the type that tends to be alkaline because I eat the wrong things. Then I will have a two-hour nap in the afternoon, and I cannot figure out yet quite what to eat to get me charged up because most of the time it is just kind of like really mellow.

Martin: Well, that is your natural tendency. Your body tends to be naturally that way. And of course, that is what makes you a wonderful companion. You are not ornery, contrarian, or rubbing people the wrong way. You are just nice. I am naturally acidic, so if I wake up and don’t manage myself, I end up being not pleasant company.

Scott: When I was growing up. When my parents, particularly my mom would try to wake me up, I was often described as a bear. So, uh, I know a little bit about the ornery part.

Martin: Right. But anyway, I wanted to just plug in the point of the hydrogen, right. The pH is a reflection of the acid-alkaline balance in the body and everything in the human body, all the transactions, all the exchanges, they are running on electricity. And whether we call it the pH, which is the power of hydrogen, which means just how many free electrons do we have available to donate (that is alkalinity) or how many missing electrons we present with (that is acidity) it is reflective. So we can express it either in pH or we can express it in millivolts. And Dr. Jeff Tennant famously said that “life equals electricity, or life equals voltage.” If you have voltage, if you have electrons, you can run your show, and without it, you are suffering. To be specific, there are minute currents in the body at the cellular level and at -25 millivolts, everything’s running perfectly, that is the pH of 7.35. If you push it too far, you are inflamed. If you are pushing in the other direction, you are essentially in cancer, like disintegration, lack of life, lack of energy, and then death.

Scott: So it is really important that we keep our electrical system in top-notch shape.

Martin: Right. And of course the elections…

Scott: I was just going to say that in our society today, with the sort of things we eat and the fact that we probably don’t drink very much water and replace it with coffee and Coke and beer and wine, we are probably gumming up our electrical system.

Martin: Well, from the electrical perspective, it is electrons, right? A missing electron is an oxidant and an electron donor is an antioxidant. Like the language doesn’t really reflect the electric things too well. But we can know this: aging, rusting,