 Hello everyone. Good morning. How's it going? I guess it's it's it's almost it's almost noon now It's almost lunch. I should mention by the way before I forget Not only did I make a pretty robust resources page for today's presentation at Ben greeklefitness.com slash AHS 1-8 but because admittedly as you guys already know people are just like flying through these presentations because we don't have a lot of time I'm boogieing right afterwards over into the next room And I've got my book over there Which is like 500 plus pages jam-packed with more information for if you want to something to put you to sleep at night and I'll go out there and I'll answer more questions and Sign books and we can just just chat for those of you who are who are on a Three to five day water fasting protocol and decide you're gonna skip lunch because I know we're all into that around here Part two why part two of biohacking versus ancestral living? Well, first of all, I should grab this mic out so I can go into rapper mode Hold it upside down like the rappers do A couple of years ago, I guess two or three years ago I presented at AHS and People seem to dig this concept of taking a lot of these expensive biohacks and figuring out ways that we can Filter them and decide what's gonna be ancestral and natural versus what could potentially You know screw us or be a waste of time and money And I thought I'd come back and since it's been a couple of years and all sorts of new things have hit the streets I would talk to you a little bit about what's working and kind of moving the dial for me And also some some ways that we can naturally tap into some of those things without necessarily, you know, spending $10,000 on a butt plug that delivers synthetic LSD and monitors your heart rate variability. So So ultimately let's let's get that quick quick thing. I got into all this when I was in college I was a bodybuilder and and was into like putting huge slabs of muscle on my body and Decreasing body fat and that that was how I really got into this in the first place was a full-on bro science exploration of what kind of nutrition fitness tactics and supplements really move the dial from an aesthetics and appear fitness standpoint after that I got into The next unhealthiest sport on the face of the planet chronic cardio and endurance and Did that for about ten years and that that is still to a certain extent what I'm involved in although I've kind of dialed things back frankly based on on measurements of everything from inflammation to Glycemic variability to telomere length and you know the discovery that that a lot of this This fitness thing isn't necessarily good for one and so now I now I compete in in more of the short and intense type of events and To be honest my my chronic cardio now is training for bow hunting and spear fishing and even though in many cases You know on a typical hunt you're out there for for five or six days engaged in in low-level physical activity the entire day It's it's far different than say hammering on a bike during an Ironman for ten hours And it feels more natural and it's it's of course very functional too And if you if you yourself are interested in I would say some of the more ancestral forms of fitness getting a bow and learning how to hunt and track and smell and sense the wind and go out there for long periods of time or grabbing a grabbing a spear gun and going down to a place like Fort Lauderdale and taking a taking a free diving course in My opinion those are two of the best ways to maintain fitness in a very ancestral way And you know those are two things I'm teaching my kids to do so that they when they grow up can scratch that that climb your own personal Mount Everest edge Without necessarily, you know, right in a thousand dollar check to the Ironman triathlon corporation. So Ultimately that this is my family my wife She's a homemaker and we we live kind of off-grid over in Spokane and we raise goats and chickens and I Hunt most of our meat and she grows most of our food in a bunch of raised vegetable gardens over there and my My children my my twin boys They they also are very into this concept of living as ancestrally as possible But at the same time, you know, I I also am not opposed to the idea of a lot of these modern biohacks I like to live life through the lens of kind of having one foot planted in the realm of Ancestral living and the other in the realm of modern biohacking and if you go and visit our home in the forest there there certainly are a lot of a lot of things outside that would think Make you think we're you know dirty hippies living out in the middle of the forest You know the the garden and the animals and everything else but inside I mean there's hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of all these biohacks that I experiment with and test and use myself as an n equals 1 4 and research and figure out what works and what doesn't and that's kind of that's kind of how I live my life so Ultimately, I am not opposed to Many of these things that we would consider to be better living through science such as say Utilizing near and far infrared in my office when I'm writing and I'm hunched over a computer And I can't be outside like my wife pushing around a wheelbarrow So I'm inside using near and far infrared lights instead of sunlight and taking stops to hoist a hex bar For deadlifting instead of you know working and lifting rocks out in the Sun And that's a way that I can almost biohack or simulate a little bit more of a natural life And that's that's how some of these biohacks actually work My company by the way is is key on I've gotten lots of questions about this and what it means But in a nutshell the the three swoops are they stand for mind body and spirit optimization And that's actually what the new book that I'm working on is about is not just enhancing one's body Which my last book was about and a certain amount of brain biohacking, but also spirituality longevity purpose happiness and even some of these woo-woo concepts such as energy medicine and quantum physics and Bruce Lipton's teaching on you know the biology of belief and sound healing and some of these things that might be Considered to be a bit more fringe, but that do have some some interesting research and of course a little bit of of Ancestral practice behind them. So I left off my last talk at AHS talking about Thomas Thwaites the goat man So you may familiar with the with the goat man who turned himself into a goat using prosthetic limbs For a period of time to live out with the goats and see what it would be like to use a bit of biohacking to to be one with nature and to live in ancestry with the goats and It didn't work out quite so well for him in most scenarios had a little bit of trouble With his prosthetics and is his giant aerodynamic helmet there But he's actually he's turned into filmmaking now his new projects and I'll link to them on the resources web page for this Presentation they're actually quite interesting. He's now engaged in a project to To to show what virtual reality will be like You know decades from now and the advances that are taking place in virtual reality and AI So he's kind of taken a deep dive into that sector But ultimately Thomas Thwaites the goat man if you haven't had a chance to pick up his book or we're looking to what he Did to himself and you're interested in in merging biohacking and ancestral living In a very comical manner. He's he's a good guy to follow So ultimately, you know, many of these modern biohacks that we see folks engaged in I think that our Caveman ancestors to be incredibly stereotypical with his blog post of this a this image of a Man in his his leopard unit hard running from a saber-tooth tiger Which is the way that I imagine life was thousands of years ago everywhere, right? There are certain things we have now they would have used like this. This is a this is an implantable Compass, this is this would be considered a biohack that will vibrate every time that you're facing magnetic north and it's also accompanied by two additional sensors that will allow you to To sense via inputs what's going on behind you almost like eyes in the back of your head It will vibrate based on certain audio and visual cues and I I could see some amount of Efficacy in something like that and and there is of course this fact that Wayfinding right knowing how to use the wind which a lot of I know someone just presented on ketosis and And the fact that that a lot of inuits will will live in that state But they also place a great deal of emphasis on using the wind to way find we saw a Polynesian Navigators using the moon and the stars of course and there are Variety of ways that you can teach yourself how to navigate But at the same time this idea of using an internal built-in compass is something I'm not opposed to the idea There are other things like like night vision, you know We know that kale and carrots and eggs and sources of Lutine and zeaxanthin are certainly great for our eye health, but you know this gentleman actually had Clorella Injected into his eyeballs to be able to see at night the effects are not permanent They lasted for a few days, but they actually enhanced him with night vision And that's something that I would have imagined that a that a hunter or an early human predator would have actually found a little bit of efficacy with this gentleman actually had an antenna installed into the Oxypital bone in the back of his head. I'm sure he used more than just like a common set of wood screws But ultimately that antenna because he is colorblind allows him to to see or to feel color There are certain cues that are presented to him via that antenna when he's presented with blue or red or purple And so this is another example of a of a biohack you can see that a lot of these involve a lot more than say Putting putting butter into your coffee. I mean in my opinion This is this is true biohacking and they actually the the way that they refer to this There's an entire book about this called Grinders as the human body is the wet wear and then hardware is placed onto the human body and that in my opinion is truly Hacking the hacking human biology These are these are chips now implantable chips underneath the skin I believe Peter DeMondis has one of these a few other folks are now planting these currently they will track things like Glucose Lactate ATP levels a lot of these things that we currently wear Devices that that emit signals to track ultimately a lot of folks are installing these underneath the skin as a way to To track parameters and this is another Fascinating and emerging technology That's that's very similar to this idea of just having an entire lab on a chip and planted underneath your skin I can see some efficacy in that too. I've actually Gotten a great deal of health insights by using a continuous blood glucose monitor Which this is essentially the the fancy minimal dial-down equivalent of that There are other technologies that are interesting This is an RFID chip that folks are now installing underneath their skin to enable them to be able to log into their computer Get into their car get into their home It's essentially like a like a security device that allows Certain other devices that you interact with to be able to identify you There are certain things that I don't think would have been found too useful for our for our ancestors this for example Is a camera now that a lot of these these grinders are installing into their eyes It allows you to make your entire life into a movie. It's literally entire video camera setup That's installed in the orbital section and it allows you to just track everything that goes on in your life And it's kind of like a like a smartphone and selfie mode on steroids This also I'm not quite sure that I see a great deal of usefulness for this unless you're Tom Cruise and in that minority report movie but folks are now and this is the hand that has an actual Magnetic implants installed in the hand to allow a user to be able to interact with devices such as touch screens to be able to To pick up small objects because apparently you can't do that unless you have magnets installed in your fingertips But that's that's another example of a modern bio hack these The these fancy bioluminescent Tattoos that folks are installing underneath their skin There's Does anyone know why someone would do something like this bioluminescent tattoos under the skin the actual functional efficacy of that Well, there isn't one they're just supposed to look cool. These are these are just tattoos There's there's absolutely no no usefulness for this aside from that They look cool or might be used kind of like that new movie Black Panther is like an identification method for your tribe. This gentleman actually had a Stereo speakers installed in his ears Sorry for the for the gory graphic But this actually allows him to enhance his his hearing and I could see some amount of efficacy in that You know it just just in in terms of like, you know hunting to be able to hear the sheep 500 yards away instead of a hundred yards away But this is another example of a modern bio hack and a way that people are trying to upgrade their biology And then there are these these large devices that folks are now installing in their forearms There's a there's a group of grinders now doing this and it's a very unwieldy and and in my opinion somewhat a somewhat Disruptive piece of technology to have installed underneath one's skin But this can actually track your at this point your body temperature Which again to me seems a little bit silly to do that versus say Buying buying a little thermometer that you could put underneath your tongue or you know I wear a ring that tracks body temperature But ultimately folks are doing this as well and then of course there there's the ultimate bio hack What I like to call birth control for your head these these blue light blocking glasses and no I just I don't consider that to be a bio hack But I certainly do I certainly do use those myself and this is kind of the transition that will make into some of these Things that don't necessarily involve surgery But that are installed but you know things that things that you can purchase or do to yourself that are a little bit less permanent than then Say, you know having something installed into your earlobes, but one here is is very interesting Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide there's some evidence That your NAD to NADH ratios can directly influence your rate of aging your level of inflammation and a host of factors related primarily to longevity and Overall wellness and there is an emerging trend of folks either doing injections or IVs of NAD a close corollary to that is Supplement that's very popular nowadays called NR nicotinamide riboside, which is a form of vitamin B3 Which also appears to be pretty efficacious and it is certainly something that I use and in my own telomere tracking have found that The use of NAD along with something else I'll allude to on this presentation stem cell therapy Has a profound effect in decreasing the rate at which telomere shorten now at the same time these injections are expensive You're going to spend Close to a thousand dollars to go into a medical clinic and have something like this done in many cases the Standard protocol is you go in for NAD IVs for four days in a row Sometimes up to ten days and then maintain those levels with supplementations or with repeat injections I personally have an IV sent to my house and administer it once per week via Push IV, but in fact when it comes to more ancestral methods of Adjusting your NAD to NADH ratios well one of the best ways to do it is via Fasting it turns out that a lot of these things that are mildly uncomfortable a lot of these hormetic stressors are not only fantastic for Increasing your own endogenous stem cell production and availability, but also for increasing your NAD to NADH ratios It's not caloric restriction that seems to move the dial in this sense It's simply longer periods of time spent between meals So many people begin to live their entire lives cold and libido lists and you know craving Whatever a bowl of of no key with with mushrooms or a big old ribeye steak because they're simply starved the whole time The idea is you go a long period of time without eating and I have some friends who implement intermittent fasting and they simply have an enormous 1,500 to 3,000 calorie dinner at evening each night and that's their single meal of the day I as I as I kind of progressed through life and get a little bit farther and farther away from the extreme exercise Protocols and getting closer to a two-day a meal protocol along with the 12 to 16 hour intermittent fast daily some type of a coffee or or you know something with some nutrients added into it like a mushroom tea for breakfast and Then a big salad for lunch and a large dinner and then a 24-hour dinner time to dinner time fast each week And I've found in tracking my inflammation and my glycemic variability and also my telomere length that this has also been effective So just this concept of intermittent fasting with the idea that it doesn't necessarily have to involve calorie restriction So much as long periods of time spent between meals Especially if your goal for intermittent fasting is longevity more than it is for for weight loss Another example is this beta-lapachines beta-lapachines are found in a type of tea called Pau de arco bark tea Pau de arco bark tea, which you can actually purchase on Amazon and this is actually a precursor to NADs this would be another example of something you could make at home without doing these type of injections It's very simple and kind of a low-cost way to get some of these same effects a sauna Frequent sauna exposure and frequent heat exposure as a hormetic stressor to increase your NAD levels Also can help out with your stem cell production. So this is another one that seems to be pretty efficacious Not only for performance and detoxification for your skin's largest or through your body's largest detoxification organ your skin But it's also quite useful as a way to increase your NAD levels Fermented foods fermented foods can also increase NAD so eating a large variety of fermented foods Especially in light of the fact that very few of these probiotic supplements that are sold to us have been shown in research to actually be able To see the stomach properly or stick around for a very long period of time These this is a very efficacious way via kimchi and sauerkraut and dairy and kefir and a lot of these other ferments To be able to increase NAD levels as well a lot of people aren't aware of the NAD to NADH ratio adjustment With fermented foods raw honey is another interestingly This is one that I recently discovered is something that can increase your NAD NADH ratio So the use of raw honey for example a little bit before bedtime for a slow release of energy or a little bit with like You know for example, I have a carrot every day with lunch And I put a little bit of raw honey on the carrot and weird like that I have these these strange habits and I ate a carrot every lunch one big old raw carrot with some raw honey on it high-intensity interval training In moderation more than 60 minutes per day actually appears to be associated with increased risk of mortality But shorter sessions, you know shorter 15 to 30 minute high-intensity interval training sessions Also can improve your NAD to NADH ratios hyperbaric oxygen therapy or intermittent hypoxic training meaning Using devices this is one that I have in my office called a live o2 a live o2 It allows me to flip between hyperoxia and hypoxia while doing something like a high-intensity interval training session With my bicycle set next to this now hyperbaric oxygen has been shown to have a lot of benefits Especially when it comes to moving the dial for things like mitochondrial density or Arethropoietin production it also has of course a lot of research behind it when it comes to things like Alzheimer's and Dementia and improved blood flow to the brain The idea is though however if you don't want to purchase a very expensive device like this a couple other things that that can act Similarly, you know on my walk up here this morning. I do this a lot when I'm walking I was practicing a style of breathing Called buteco breathing buteco breathing is based on this concept That a lot of people spend their lives engaged in a state of chronic hyperventilation Meaning that we blow off a lot of co2 as a matter of fact co2 or carbon dioxide is often vilified as being something that creates a state of metabolic acidosis But in fact by maintaining high levels of co2 along with high levels of oxygen Simultaneously, there's something called the Bohr's equation and exercise physiology, which means that when you have high levels of co2 Oxygen is more readily Dissociated from red blood cells and deposited into your tissues and learning how to engage in this buteco breathing I have a very small inexpensive advice called a relaxator that if you would have seen me walking up here this morning from my motel I was breathing in and out of and all it does is it allows me to breathe through my nose and then limit the flow of oxygen Out of my mouth so that I'm releasing co2 very slowly The same can be done by breathing in through your nose then breathing out very slowly through pursed lips with a goal of your daily Respiration rate eventually getting down to about 10 to 12 breaths per minute with some retention of co2 Very very good way to tap into the sum of the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy without actually buying a big chamber Using one of these devices There's also this this idea of the the young Spartans in training the cryptaea And I'll use this concept as well My children do this also with me is we'll put a shot of water or a handful of rocks into the mouth and then try to walk Or jog X amount of distance while only breathing through our nose this concept of training yourself to breathe Nasally which increases oxygen and does a great job filtering and warming the air that you breathe During exercise or doing movement is also a great way to simulate Some of these hypoxic benefits that we get via something like hyperbaric while also retaining a lot of carbon dioxide These are simple methods that we can use just basic breathwork concepts Another popular thing of late has been these exogenous ketones exogenous ketones are You know there there's something that that are available now for 30 to 40 dollars for what would be called a ketone ester As well as less expensive for for the slightly less efficacious But still a good way to amp up ketones these ketone salts So many of them are for sale now and a lot of them them taste good I you know I've been using things like this for about eight years and they used to taste horribly and now a lot of them Tastes like the fricking crack cocaine. They're they're pretty good actually But of course we know that things like cold and fasting can also Can also do a very very good job at putting you into a state of ketosis and a little bit more natural way I mean, that's really how our ancestors would have traditionally gotten to a state of ketosis would not have been by consuming perfect Keto salted caramel collagen, but instead by actually Going for long periods of time without eating now something that was really recently brought to my attention I was having a conversation with Dominique Diego Steno Who's one of the world's foremost ketone researchers organ meats and specifically liver our natural storehouses of beta hydroxybutyrate? Which are actually these same salts and esters that we're purchasing in these expensive ketone supplements and this even Causes me to to raise an eyebrow at this idea that a lot of people will say well Ancient men never would have had elevated levels of glucose and elevated levels of ketones as we're able to achieve now By being able to have a meal and then wash it down with some ketone esters to push ourselves into a state of Ketosis well, it turns out if you're having a big old meal of meat after you've say had a kill or you're out at your fancy farm to Table restaurant eating liver you actually are elevating your ketones Simultaneous to elevating your blood glucose or increasing your glycogen availability So I think that being in a state of ketosis even when food is present is something that our ancestors would have would have Been in especially if they were eating a high intake of organ meats So this is another thing fasting the intake of organ meats and some amount of cold as a way to simulate some of the effects of these Exogenous ketones another thing of course. It's very popular of date are these new tropics or smart drugs I just finished about a six thousand word article that'll be published Tuesday on my website about how to source psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin and how to supplement with things like You know things like new tropics and smart drugs and kind of an analysis of a lot of these different things that are on the market But ultimately there are natural ways to tap into this as well My sons just about six days ago went out on our land and they harvested a bunch of st. John's Ward Which actually acts very very similar to an SSRI and acts on serotonin receptors very similarly to a lot of these new tropics And they they took a bunch of vodka. They they mix the vodka into a jar They go into the pantry every day and they shake it and within four weeks We'll have a tincture of st. John's Ward that acts to pick the mood up in a very similar way is like a lot of these Supplements that include Makuna or L. Dopa or some of these things that increase dopamine while making more serotonin available So this would be an example of a natural new tropic that has been used for thousands of years st. John's Ward So they call it the the happy flower Lion's mane I think this one's cool because it actually looks like a bunch of little axons and dendrites This for sparking neuro genesis and sprouting new neurons is actually a fantastic Supplement and can be found in many cases for for pennies on the dollar compared to these $150 bottles of smart drugs and supplements that we can purchase and lion's mane is something that I use almost daily now and part of This is based on genetic testing that I've done that shows both myself and my children have lower than normal levels of BDNF Production so I choose my supplements very carefully based on my genetics and personal needs But lion's mane is something both myself and my my twin 10-year-old boys use on a regular basis So lion's mane would be another natural new tropic that would be a little bit more of an ancestral approach psilocybin you know a lot of these studies at Johns Hopkins University for example have been shown that it as well as fantastic for neuro genesis and About once a week. I'll use about a half gram of psilocybin about 0.5 grams and Blend this with lion's mane for even more enhanced neuro genesis and then anything that increases blood flow niacin Or even that that nicotinamide riboside supplement or any NAD precursor like I referred to earlier This is a very very potent stat for increasing the health of your brain and it works very well I've been doing this every Sunday for about eight to ten weeks now And it's a very very potent stack for neuro genesis psilocybin along with lion's mane along with with anything You know even beetroot that increases blood flow Finally green tea would be another that I really like you'll find caffeine and Elthianine combined in many of these supplements and this again is very very easy to find in its natural form in green tea And this is a fantastic natural new tropic especially with my own testing post noon to allow you to get a cognitive edge without Decreasing your percentage of deep sleep Particularly so these are examples of natural new tropics that you can have around your house stem cells a few months ago I Became one of the first people in the world to undergo a full-body stem cell makeover meaning I went under anesthesia and had every Joint in my body injected with stem cells I went under cosmetic and sexual enhancement with stem cell treatments and basically based on the stem cell theory of aging that your natural endogenous availability of stem cells will tend to decrease as you age and this can affect Longevity you're refilling those stores. Well, this is an expensive procedure We're talking about a 25 to $30,000 procedure to actually have a full-body stem cell done and anywhere in the range of 3,000 to 8,000 to go and have your stem cells extracted from your fat or your bone and stored for Re-injections later as an anti-aging protocol There are things that can improve your endogenous availability of stem cells one would be marine phytoplankton Which is available somewhat inexpensively especially relative to stem cells as a supplement that can be used for stem cell production Endogenously aloe vera is another aloe vera juice or aloe vera extract seems to have an impact on what's called toadie potent stem cell availability Eating small baby goats. Also. No, I'm just kidding a colostrum Colostrum Which which is found in the milk given given to young mammals Colostrum is also a great supplement for increasing stem cell availability I don't use it year-round because it can cause a steep rise in insulin like growth factor and insulin which can be Correlated to to an increase in mTOR which could cause accelerated aging But at certain times during the year, I'll use colostrum I'll load with that for about four to eight weeks and then come off it for about four to eight weeks So the use of colostrum is also a good one Clorella is another clorella tablets or something I actually travel with and use quite a bit Curcumin is another the extract of turmeric Coffee berry fruit extract. This is an interesting one But one that has some very interesting research behind it again on increasing stem cell availability And this can be purchased in powder form on Amazon and added to things like smoothies and shakes and many of these Ingredients that I'm showing you you can easily combine all of these Eric here and sitting in the front row has been on my podcast and talked about his 30-ingredient smoothie And I'm well known for making elaborate smoothies and shakes with a lot of different ingredients in them And one that I'll make quite frequently is I'll just grab a lot of these things that I have in my pantry and make myself What I call a stem cell shake with a lot of these different ingredients that Allow you to tap into some of these benefits of stem cell production without necessarily forking over 3,000 to 8,000 to $30,000 and said you're just spending I guess $50 on expensive coffee berry fruit extract on Amazon But it's all relative and then finally this one is I'm forget I believe that's Moringa Moringa is is another that you'll find as a stem cell precursor Anything that would be considered a sirtuin enhancing food blueberries dark chocolate red wine resveratrol Not only do these improve your NAD to NADH ratios, but they can have an impact on your stem cells as well The purples the blues the very very darkly colored supplements and and nutrients that we find in nature These would be other things that you should include in your diet on a regular basis I personally will save most fructose that I'll take in until towards the end of the day when my When my liver glycogen stores are a little bit empty because fructose can before it spills over into triglycerides Get converted into liver glycogen your muscles can't take it up But if you're if you're eating a lot of these fructose rich sirtuin sources on an empty stomach are in a fasted state They can actually do a good job without causing too much triglyceride or too much fructose This is a cacao cacao fruit is also a great one the Cacao nibs are a staple in my diet. I'm also a big fan of the the cacao fruit So air filtering, you know, there are expensive air filters like this I keep one in my office called a molecule. It's about ten times more sensitive than a HEPA air filter But there's also this NASA house plant study and we've installed a lot of these plants around our house I'll include a link to it on the resources page for this presentation Everything from peace lily to English IV to a lot of these plants that naturally clean up the air that acts as a Naturally toxin that release a little bit of negative ions that even release some of their essential oils that can help to decrease cortisol There's a lot of compounded benefits to having a wide variety of plants around your house And they can act very very similarly to these filters if you want a little bit more of an ancestral way to you know Not spend a bunch of money on on a molecule HEPA air filter Hydrogen-rich water is another very very popular kind of water source as a selective anti-inflammatory Antioxidant a lot of research coming out of Japan right now on hydrogen-rich water along with structured water Which structures water and allows water to maintain the natural state that it would have been in based on a lot of Gerald Pollock's research At the University of Washington which allows it to flow more easily through the body and also be absorbed better into the cells The idea being that when water is structured it creates what's called an exclusion zone Which is an electrochemical gradient that allows water to move more readily through vessels There is also though a tribe. I believe they're they're close to The the the Hoonza tribe they create this stuff called Hoonza water They're they're somewhere close to to Killy I believe killer Majaro. I don't know the exact location But but what they do is they have water that's very mineral-rich and that gets a lot of sunlight added to it And not only can you get an increased structuring of water But an increased hydrogen ion availability when you use this tactic to make water at home the way that you do it It's very simple. We do this at home with glass car boys You can just buy glass car boys at Amazon or at your local hardware store You fill them with big chunks of like a Himalayan salt and and there's actually a form called Soleil salt that you can Purchase and then you fill that with water and you place it out in sunlight now the water will get very salty Do not make the mistake of drinking the water by the cup full because you will you'll develop Explosive diarrhea the rest of the day Trust me and n equals one been there done that but getting a shot glass of this stuff and putting it into your regular Glass of water actually allows you to get most of the benefits of hydrogen-rich water and structured water without buying all these Expensive water generators or water machines. Yeah, there's a little bit of extra labor involved But it's a very very simple tactic and it's simply salt and sunlight that you're using to create the same chemical effect as a Lot of these expensive machines and filters are using Plus it just feels a little bit more hippie and natural a couple others Antibiotics, of course are popular and and you know I just thought it would be fun to mention that the medieval literature That's been unearthed of late that show that the use of things like garlic and allium and onions and leeks can all have a Significant impact on things like methicillin resistant Bacteria and a lot of these things that we normally take antibiotics for well There's an I'll link to the to the cookbook the medieval cookbook on the resources page for this But there's an entire cookbook full of medieval lore that actually has a lot of these things that have been tested in research and shown To be effective against antibiotic resistant bacteria that you can use in the medicine cabinet of your home You know and I have smoothies that I make out of garlic and leek and onions and they taste like ass But when you consume them when you're in when when your immune system is compromised They're actually fantastic way to use a more ancestral approach than modern pharmaceuticals Metformin is very popular of late even in the anti-aging and longevity sectors along with of course the use of insulin pumps and people who Have diabetic complications But the elephant in the room in my opinion is the idea that we can control glycemic variability Which is in my opinion in addition to inflammation one of the best things to track when it comes to your longevity Via natural methods drinking copious amounts of alcohol for example No, I'm just kidding using bitters and digestives I commonly will have a bitter or a digestive infused cocktail prior to dinner because it enhances my first phase insulin response to a meal It enhances your body's ability to naturally insulin and lower blood glucose So there's something to be said for the Moscow mule with the ginger in the mint in the limonet Which acts as a natural digesti for bitter to enhance your blood glucose response to a meal Salon cinnamon is another vastly improves insulin sensitivity at a dose of about two teaspoons a day Anything bitter bitter melon extract is a supplement that I use regularly It's one of the daily supplements that I use if I'm going to eat a carbohydrate rich meal Because based on my own testing with a continuous blood glucose monitor It lowers my glucose better than metformin meaning that that when I take that prior to a meal I take about three to four capsules now before I eat a carbohydrate rich meal It decreases blood glucose when you wrote stop is that for Q&A or overall done done Okay, we'll keep going. I'll do Q and I'll do Q&A over at my table Bear-Borin is another Bear-Borin is a great extract for blood sugar control Apple cider vinegar a shot of this added to that digesti for bitter rich cocktail that you would have this also fantastic for blood glucose control Chewing chewing food anywhere from 25 to 40 times per bite actually improves your insulin response to a meal So this would be another thing that you can do instead of taking some of these expensive You know biohack type of supplements for decreasing blood sugar Cryo therapy is also popular of late and of course I will address another elephant in the room the fact that rather than forking over 70 to 80 dollars to visit a cryotherapy chamber you can take a cold shower or Better yet a cold soap with the advantage being when your head gets wet You get a vagus nerve activation that gives you a better response to cold than you do when you're in one of these cryotherapy Chambers where you got to keep your head above the chamber now granted you do that so that you don't die But at the same time getting underwater and taking a cold shower in my opinion beats the pants off of forking out over a bunch of money For these these cryotherapy chambers as long as you don't mind getting wet and having to put your makeup back on what you Don't have to do with with cryotherapy Sunlight or infrared light rather, you know, I'm well known for using all these crazy light biohacks like you know This one for circadian rhythm or the light in the in the in the ears as well the human charger As well as this vi light, which is basically photobiomodulation for the head originally developed for Alzheimer's and dementia But it actually works fantastically for decreasing inflammation in neural tissue, especially after I've been traveling or I'm jet-lagged Etc. Well, of course, you know that the glaringly obvious fact is that we can of course get a lot of this from sunlight near and far infrared as well as UVA and UVB and I realize it's kind of like a Simple and stupid answer But if you're purchasing all these biohacks, you're not actually getting out into the sunlight every day Then in my opinion you're you're wasting your money on the biohacks If you haven't yet tapped into the sun a lot of these things that seem sexy and that we pay a lot of money for Can be simulated with the with the way that our ancestors would have got it And if I have the choice between putting in a human charger and wearing the retimer glasses or going out and standing in The sunlight I choose the latter so I go natural whenever I can even though I know there's a lot of silly photos of me on the internet with these strange things attached to my head You know the compass thing and I kind of already kicked that horse to death some of the alternatives And you know the fact that that folks like the Inuits will use you know For example wind and I actually found a great article on natural way-finding and what a lot of ancient cultures did and taught their children I don't have time to get into it right now, but I linked to it on the resources page for this chapter if you Kind of want to take a deep dive. It's a fascinating document on navigation Finally there is a book called grinders, which if you're into this whole wet wear hardware type of thing is good This is not the actual book grinders. It's it's the wrong photo the book is titled grinders But this is a different book called grinders, so The book grinders though is fascinating if you want to look at that I'll link to the actual book on the resources page And ultimately you know like I mentioned in the beginning You know, I'm not opposed to many of these bio hacks I just think that we have to have one foot planted in the realm of ancestral living The other foot planted in the realm of being open to better living through science and being open to biohacking But we need to look through at this through the lens of of what would be considered something natural or something Our bodies might naturally produce and what might be considered unnatural in the equivalent of you know Ripping open your forearm to install a temperature gauge So I know I flew through a lot of this stuff pretty quickly Oh my last tip for you is if all outs fails put a stick of butter in your coffee Because we know that's the the ultimate the ultimate biohack Anyways though, so I'll all literally just kind of walk out of this room because I know we're trying trying to end this you're doing a good job Yeah, yes, I'm going into the next room right now. I will answer your questions I'll be there at my book table with some books available and I'll just have a Q&A right out there if you want to come on over So thank you guys