Show Notes

• Creating your Brand

• • As you create a brand, you are also recreating yourself. We may not bethat person yet, but as we list things as part of our brand, we’re given a chance and reminder to live each day to become that person.

  • First step is to recognize that you may not be that person yet, but you can start creating moment-to-moment choices to be that brand. You actually become that person over time and over habits.

• Branding Doctors

• • One patient at a time.

  • Being happy to help one at a time tells your brain that you are safe. And when you are safe and got more than enough, you get out of the ego mode and you can help others.

• Finding your Frequency and Essence

• • If you look at your skills, your knowledge, and your desire and utilize a way to balance the three, you can find your frequency.

  • Rediscovering your essence is doing the things that pull you forward. Always thinking too hard about the next right thing you need to do actually holds you back. Just take action—at the end of that, you're just either going to feel you want to do it more or you learn from that and find something about yourself. 

• Dealing with judgment and doubt

• • The institution and training of medicine is a very hierarchical system. Certainly, there are people that doubt what I'm doing. But I also feel that the world is evolving and breaking open to new ideas. Colleagues who are living with the stress of modern-day conventional medicine doctors are starting to ask why.

• Building a community for your brand

• • There's power in 100: Engagement.

  • Grow as organically as possible. Tapping into your true frequency can be felt by people and they will engage more and become true ambassadors.

  • Frequency is magnetic. And two similar frequencies resonate.

  • It's about amplitude, not the followers.

• Thanksgiving and gratitude: An awakening, an opportunity to recognize the gift of life. 

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Show notes

From Pharmacy to Preventing Alzheimer's in Women

• I learned so much from my mom's illness— not only about the disease but about living a full life. We don't know how much time we have.

• There are a lot of risk factors that increase for women during perimenopausal years, the same risk factors for Alzheimer's 

Why women tend to be more predisposed to having Alzheimer's?

• We don't know the exact reason. But there are some facts that contribute to those risk factors: (1) women tend to experience stress and anxiety at greater levels, and (2) our gut microbiome shifts during the perimenopausal stage.

 Does the drop in hormones have a role?

• It hasn't been studied well, but I personally do think there's a link because the symptoms that men and women experience when their hormones decline are very similar to the risk factors of cognitive decline.

• There are so many other conditions related to aging that we have to think about like osteoporosis, but we can use the same preventative strategies.

• Women who undergo bioidentical hormone replacement say they experience improved bone density, cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive health as well.

Where to begin: The first step to prevention is to start with simple steps that you can actually do consistently.

• Women often do not put their health first for many reasons such as finances, time, or priorities. But there's a lot things you can do at home to start.

• • Diet - Our modern-day diet is not as clean as it should be. Eliminate processed foods and sugars. Glucose imbalance is associated with cognitive decline. Eat whole foods and clean protein, predominantly plant-based. Improve gut health by including prebiotic and probiotic foods.

  • Sleep - Prioritise good sleep hygiene.

  • Learn to be mindful to reduce stress and anxiety. Practice meditation or whatever that could help quiet your mind.

Women's Biology and Psyche

• Women tend to have diffused attention spans because they have to take the details of so many different things to make sure they can act accordingly and keep the tribe safe. Many people, even after knowing the things they can do, find it very difficult to start prioritising themselves because of this instinctual drive.

• It has to be a personal choice. Us, women, have to recognize that it's not selfish to do things for ourselves and our health. Happy mom, happy home.

• Sacrificing our health and wellbeing does not necessarily better our families' lives.

Initial Practices to Snowball-building a Self-Caring Habit

• Start with exercise. As you try to squeeze in that workout in the morning, the more it gives you energy and motivation. 

• You have to have something that when you start doing, you will realize that the world doesn't fall apart around you, then you can continue taking more steps to prioritize yourself AND fit in everything else that you want to prioritize.

Tapping to what brings you joy

Permission

• It really takes an internal driver. Maybe it means hearing over and over again that it is OK to put yourself first because a lot of us are externally validated. It'll come with time. But once you cross that line, it becomes significantly easier.

• For men, allowing your partner that personal time is very important.

First step to YES

• Start every day with a moment of being grateful for something in your life that's created by YOU. If the answer is nothing, then you have to evaluate. Life is too short to not be bringing joy to yourself.

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Dr. Dasai's Best Medicine: Slowing Down.

The MindBodySpeak Method

• Bringing consciousness and intention to every single moment.

Mastering the Energetics of Voice

• Voice is life. Speaking with distinction directly affects how safe we feel about externalizing our thoughts. 

• Talking increases blood pressure.

• The voice makes an impression. The words are vehicle; the voices is the body. Being able to master the vocalization gives life and power to words.

• Life becomes a reaction to what's happening around us. In that reactionary phase, our voice is weak.

Vocalization 

• Most of the people who care about their voice are singers, actors or public speakers, in so far as the goal of delivering a song, a line or a speech solely. But for most of us, it's just talking. But the voice can tell where you're from and what you're feeling.

Techniques and Things to Remember

• The Yawn Stretch does things to our body. It helps in circulation as stress relievers.

• Box breathing is a military-based breathing technique soldiers use to fall asleep on a battlefield.

• We have to reset our system and maintain. Like what we learn in Thrive State, we have to do consistent maintenance for the long haul. We have to respect our biology.

• Implementing little breaks throughout our day gives you space to command yourself how you want to show up. If your energetic state is calm, you can show up differently.

• It is very challenging to sit in today's world and verbally communicate safely. Everyone gets the wrong sense, and you can get canceled. Being comfortable on one's skin is not just a metaphor; it's also about how you feel with your body when you speak.

Simple Exercises to Start with

• Watch the Age of Voice TEDx

• Think about what you want to enjoy with their presence.

The Magical Universe of Mycobiome and Microbiome

• Everything plays a part in an ecosystem. You cannot isolate one part. In the microbiome, you should look at the entire ecosystem—not only the bacteria but also fungi. They play together either to help us or harm us.

Gut Testing

• guttesting.com is a quiz that could quickly tell you presumptively if you have imbalance in your microbiome. But to get a better look of your microbiome health, there is a Gut Test Kit available now through biohmhealth.com.

• DNA testing of microbes (both bacteria and fungi) helps test out imbalance and pinpoint the things that are out of balance. Then it comes with suggestions for treatment.

Treatment Suggestion Approaches

• Diet - You can regulate your gut within your hands.

• Lifestyle - sleep, exercise

• Stress - managing stress

• Supplementation - Knowing first if there is and what the imbalance is about helps you target more specifically your supplementation needs.

Prebiotics vs. Probiotics

• Prebiotics are basically food, while probiotics are live.

• Prebiotics are basically fibers, which you can find in oatmeal, beans, etc. Our body does not break it down. When they reach the intestine, there are beneficial microbes that uses them as food and break it down, which then starts producing small molecules that helps balance our gut. 

• Postbiotic is a new area experts are looking. Instead of using live probiotics, you can either take the metabolites that the live bacteria secretes or the live probiotic and kill them, which makes up another form of probiotics. For example, it is very good for the skin.

Dr. Ghannoum's Best Medicine: Perspective and hope.

Regenerative Therapies

• Started in bone marrow transplant. Having to wipe out their immune system and reconstitute that with someone else's stem cells is a miracle of medicine.

• The evolution of CAR-T therapy has taken that to a whole new personalized level. There's so many opportunities to leverage cell-based therapies to make small and big parts of our health better.

Regenerative Medicine Unpacked

• If we ground your body up and measure how old your physical body is, it's the best estimate that the average age of the cells in your body is 7-10 years, no matter how old you are.

• Regenerative medicine happens every hour, every day to the degree we don't fully comprehend. The drugs we take, the exercise we do, and the food we eat and how that affect our regenerative ability have probably the biggest impact on how we age, how we recover, and how we grow. These are areas we weren't taught in medical school, but science made us realize how important it is to protect and promote the regenerative capacity of our body. And that unlocks the miracle of medicine in the future.

Cellular Therapies for Healing Congenital Heart Disease

• One of the tissues in our body that does not regenerate very well is the heart muscle—just about 1% growth rate in a year. This makes it inadequate to repair heart attacks or missing parts. Science is trying to find fertilizers and seeds that we can use to stimulate the heart.

• The fundamental game-changer that Heart Works is the world's first to offer is the ability to bio-engineer new seeds to grow new heart muscle. This technology of producing autologous heart muscle has the potential to cure many diseases. 

Cells with the same genetic material vs Cells without the same genetic material

• Because of the economics of producing autologous tissue (one product: one patient), most people argue it's not feasible, practical, and sustainable. I believe otherwise. An example of that is bone marrow transplants that we've done for decades. That doesn't mean it will not be expensive and it is not right for everybody.

• If you replace tissue with an allogeneic tissue, you will need immunosuppression so your body will not reject it. Hence, there's a real possibility, for example in a heart transplant, that you're trading one disease for another because you may be able to live longer with the new heart but will develop some kind of cancer in the future because your immune system has been knocked down. So using autologous heart muscle is a much healthier, ideal way of doing it.

Using culture-expanded cells

• From a regulatory standpoint, in the US, people are not allowed to pay to participate in a clinical trial, which is not the case in other countries. This maybe is the fundamental difference in terms of regulation.

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Tim's Best Medicine: My family.

Cultivating Discipline

• Discipline is like callouses on your hands. It starts with creating habits. It's a combination of resilience and habit. You don't get them right away, but when you do, it hurts a little bit.  But over time, they harden and get thicker, and you no longer feel the pain, or you learn to handle it.

• You have to have a big enough reason to see through it. If your passion cannot be turned into a business or career, then find something that at least can get you to spark but can get you to stick to it long enough until it becomes ingrained and until it leads you to the next step.

It's gonna be hard, it's gonna be messy, before it's gonna be wonderful.

• Comparison is the thief of joy. But comparing yourself to who you are yesterday is totally healthy. You do it to celebrate growth, no matter how small.

Which is more valuable: Resilience or Passion?

• We can actually have both. But resilience is like the activation energy that you use to build your muscle. Whereas passion is instantaneous. If you don't have resilience, you cannot go forward.

• Diamond = Heat + Pressure + Time is the same as Greatness = Stress + Passion + time.

Simplest/quickest things you can do to cultivate discipline:

• Start with just one and something simple. Do the hardest things first, so you get it out of the way.

• Don't check your phone in the morning. Start with a simple breathing exercise: in for 4, hold for 7, out for 8.

Changing the Energy around our DNA

• Physical (sleep, nutrition, movement) and Thoughts (mindset, emotions, community, relationships)

• 5 Simple Physical Keys:
• • Get rid of sugar and processed foods and eat nutritious food.
  • Restrict the time you eat
  • Move every single day.
  • Practice sleep hygiene.
  • Go to sleep and wake up at the same time every single time. Practice a good nighttime routine.

The IMPACT Framework to Stay in the Thrive State

• I (a)M - the bold vision you have for yourself
• Pause - the breath and space
• Awareness - being mindful of the action you're about to make
• Choose - the conscious choice
• Take Action

• Thrive State is about making conscious choices that put us in an energetic state that feeds into optimal health.

Default Mode Network: The Seat of the Ego

• We created the ego within ourselves to protect us from danger. It basically forms who we are as people; part of it wants us to survive but it's an autopilot.
• When we don't react and show up differently, there's a different energy. 

Mo's Best Medicine: Having zero expectations of everybody else.

Show Notes

• Turning the focus to Lifestyle and Longevity
• • Dr. Lufkin admits that there is evidence that what we're being taught (what he used to teach) in medical school was incorrect. Upon having four metabolic diseases, Dr. Lufkin himself started pivoting and implementing some of those changes in his lifestyle until he got off from meds. Now, his passion is to help send this message across the medical community and longevity and anti-aging space.
  • Nowadays, type II diabetes can be reversed by restricting certain carbohydrates.

• Lies I Taught in Medical School: The Book
• • With each chapter featuring a “lie” he taught in medical school, this book according to his website is based on Dr Lufkin’s experience as a professor of medicine at both UCLA and USC, is a “riveting, cautionary tale of how medicine has gotten things so wrong (and continues to) in several key areas: how chronic diseases are all linked by common root causes overlooked by our system; how financial incentives, simple human error, and other factors drive the soaring rates of chronic disease; how Dr. Lufkin was able to reverse these diseases in himself by changes in lifestyle that anyone can do; and how to keep these errors from ruining your health.”
• Biggest Lies Taught in Medical School
• • That a calorie is a calorie and that to lose weight, you just need to eat less and exercise more. It's hard to exercise your way out of a bad diet. The more you exercise, the more you would need food. So you also must understand the different food groups.
  • That the best treatment for Type II Diabetes is insulin.
  • That in cardiovascular diseases, we have just been treating the symptoms but not really the underlying disease. Statins don't really change things. Same with mental health - we just treat the symptoms.

• Ketogenic diet has been seen to help some patients reverse their mental illness. Junk food has effects beyond cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and Alzheimer's but also on abnormal behavior patterns.

• Rapamycin is the Future of Anti-Aging
• • It is the most promising anti-aging drug. Studies, both ongoing and concluded, shows its role in slowing down menopause, fighting cancer, in Alzheimer's and many other.
  • Rapamycin’s Magical Story: It has not been discovered until 1962 on a remote island with a very unique environment. At first, it was used as an anti-fungal agent for athlete's foot. Scientists incidentally discovered its immune suppression function, including slowing down cancer growth. It enabled the discovery of arguably the single most important protein in all biology—the TOR, which single function is to allow survival.
  • There's a whole theory of longevity based on TOR activation. FDA approved Rapamycin in 1999 but only in 2010 for longevity

• Robert's Best Medicine: Lifestyle, particularly nutrition (what and when you them in the body).

Show Notes

• The "Suck" is a Magical Moment
• • Loss is inevitable, but it still sucks. Thriving is one of the stages as we fly forward. But before we fly forward, we have to embrace the suck that we're in.
  • Through these moments that sucked, there are magical moments. Through the loss and dark moments, find the things you can lean on—like relationships.
  • When we have a cliche of breakdown, the pain is so big, we let people in. We can lean into those relationships.

• The Bounce Factor: How do you recognize the magical moment?
• • Building resiliency is not having to be so tough. It's more than toughness. It’s not about being so rigid. It’s having that ability to bounce and be agile.
  • Defining and changing your environment. You have to get clear about your upbringing. Get out of your current environment. Maybe you just need to do something differently, something that lights you up. Control your narrative.
  • Stretching your emotional capacity to feel. Spin your perception of the situation. Instead of asking “why me”, ask “why not me?”
  • Radical self-awareness. Make rituals that work for you. Create that wiring for yourself.
  • Key to resilience: You don’t need to necessarily fear or run away from those emotions. Sit in them, and allow your choices for yourself rather than run away.

• From Falling to Thriving
• • Embrace - Embracing the fall lets you know that there's something else that's being asked of you. It can make you feel victimized but recognize that the fall is really the signal to thrive.
  • Ignite - Ignition can be a lot of things, e.g., ending a relationship, quitting a job. It is about making a choice for yourself. But  that's going to be uncomfortable.
  • Rise - Leaning into the discomfort.
  • Magnify - Starting to feel the newfound confidence.
  • Thrive - Knowing that you’re not immune to fall, but you're saying “bring it on.” Recognizing that it's part of it, and paying it forward.

Neeta's Best Medicine: Being around water. Going with the flow and being one with the flow.

Show Notes

The Four M's of Longevity

• Mindset
• • The mindset is perception.
  • Our perception of some things determines how fast or slow our physiology responds.
  • In a 20-year-long study, the individuals who perceived aging as a process of gaining wisdom showed to have lived an average of 7.5 years longer.
  • The moment you notice fear on any level, let that trigger your mind to look from the other side. That will train your mind to just look forward vs. back; into seeing new potentials and possibilities that will speak to your physiology and have a positive effect.

• Movement
• • There is nothing that compares to exercise when it comes to slowing down the biological age (at the cellular level).
  • If you are in the top quartile of people doing exercise, you have five times less chance of dying from anything than the people in the bottom quartile.
  • We have these perceptions of what it means to move/exercise. How we perceive the rightness and wrongness is what gets us stuck, and we never move forward.
  • Move in a way that feels good for you. 

• Molecules
• • What we miss the most are the essential molecules that the cell needs to survive let alone thrive—oxygen, complex carbs, essential amino acids.
  • Oxygen is one of the most important. We are in a chronic state of hypercar
  • We are excreting too much CO2 and not getting enough O2 at the cellular level
  • Start with being aware of your breath: Breathe slow, low, in and out through the nose.

• Meaning
• • A long life lived well. Of purpose.
  • Being here now and noticing what brings richness, curiosity, and light to life.
  • Just by being here now and sharing this information—consider what has meaning for you—can be a gamechanger for the future.

Doc Melissa's Best Medicine: Love. Self-Love.

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• Principle of Nutrigenomics in Simple Terms
• • You cannot out-supplement a crappy diet.
  • 60% of determinants of health are about diet. 20% is intelligent supplementation. 20% are topicals applied from the outside, to biostimulate the skin.
  • Sugar attaching to collagen in your skin causes fine lines and wrinkles.

• Do's and Don'ts for the Skin
• • The closest the food looks to its natural state, the better it is for you.
  • The sad diet is devoid of nutrients, highly processed, and high in sugar and unhealthy oils.
  • Sugar, fats, and dairy (for some people) mostly affect the skin.
  • Essential fatty acids must be balanced. Too much omega 6, and too low omega 3 pushes you to inflammatory pathways.
  • Many people are mineral and vitamin deficient, especially vitamin C, vitamin D, and zinc.

• The Gut-Brain-Skin Axis
• • There's chemical information shared in these three all the time.
  • Fiber helps with dysbiosis. Fiber is the preferred food of good bacteria in the gut. Butyrate heals the gut, propionate affects the liver, and acetate goes out to the skin.
  • If you want good skin, start with fiber. 

• Spore-based probiotics (Bacillus) and diet 
• • The microbiome creates vitamin K, hormones, and other neurotransmitters that are essential for well-being. Gut-produced neurotransmitters don't cross the blood-brain barrier, but it wakes up afferent fibers of the vagus nerve going to the brain which sends information back down to the gut and spleen that regulates inflammation.
  • Most of the probiotics that we take are going to get destroyed in the stomach so they don't really do that much. You need above 2 billion CFU to have much effect.

• Nutrients from Plants: The job of the pigments in plants is to protect the plants from UV damage. So when you eat food that is high in these phytonutrients, you get the same skin protection.

• When do you need deeper testing?
• • It depends on what your objectives are.
  • 70-80% of our patients will need treatments following the same principle: healing the gut, cutting down things that cause inflammation, and boosting the immune system. But to some people, these things wouldn’t be enough, thus, the need for deeper testing.
  • Some useful tests: whole genome sequencing vs 16S, GI tests, organic acids, and other metabolite tests, food sensitivity testing

• Sleep, Stress and Skin
• • You absolutely need at least 7 hours of sleep. During this critical time, your body can do its “housekeeping.”
  • Breathing is the first aid for stress

• Dr. Tager’s Best Medicine: Being married to an amazing woman for 38 years who is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside.