Transcript of Dr. Beck on Why Biohacking is Just Expensive Entertainment | DSH #1218

Damn. From Oxon Chambers, you've seen people have issues with those? Yeah.

Just for fun, because I do want to wake people up with some challenging stories. You can go look up the story of Tommy Cooper. I wasn't involved in that one. And what happened in a hyperbaric chamber here recently on that. Damn. He's no longer with us.

Wow. From the oxygen chamber? Yes, his child. Holy crap.

Okay. But I'm not scaring people because think of all the thousands of units that they're not having that happen. What I'm saying is, is this willy-nilly, trying all these different things. Think of it this way. Hyperbarics. Hyperbarics with Methylene blue. Hyperbarics with Methylene blue under exertion. Hyperbarics with Methylene under blue, whatever, with photobiomodulation and plus nicotine. See, it's all a different thing. It makes a different sandwich. You change the composition, and you're going to have a different sauce.

Okay, guys. Dr. Anthony G. Beck, creator of Balanced Protocol and biohacking critic. Thanks for coming on today, man.

Oh, man. Nice intro. Yeah. Just go right for the juggler.

Well, it's good to have the other side on because I have on a lot of biohackers, and you're actually friends with some of these people, too, right?

And their physician. Yeah.

So it's good to have, I think, a little of both, in my opinion.

I agree. I completely agree. Back in the day, I've been doing I've been in creative and functional medicine for 30 years. When I first started out, it was called the Quantified Self Movement. It was way before it was ever called biohacking or anything like that. It was about quantifying you and then changing those things within you. That was what it was all now. What I have found it to become is just glorified, expensive entertainment.

Do you think social media is a major reason for that? Of course.

Yeah. But I love the buyer beware thing, but at the end of the day, everybody has their right to choose on what they want to try and do and things like that. That's why I'm just now trying to come out to the space. Because I'm a clinician, I'm not a digital marketer. Most of them are in that space. What I want to do is just bridge the gap and give people a balanced understanding that, hey, listen, those are tools, but you need to do them in the context of something, and that something is always the individual. You have a unique story, a unique biochemical individuality, a unique genetic status, and all those come into the symphony that makes us who we are. When you're just trying all the different things from copper-filled pyramids and different lights and gadgets, gizmos and dongles and pills, potions, and pounders, you really should do it based upon something. In other words, track it. When I say data, I'm talking about scientifically supported data before, during, and after. You can make adjustments as opposed to, I'm going to try this. All the rage now is methylene blue. Everybody wants to just get it.

Yeah, that one's hot right now. It is.

I've used methylene blue for decades. The thing is, is that it It has its pluses, it has its minuses. The problem is people try it without even knowing what their body has the capacity to respond to what it does with its biochemical pressure in the first place. I like to talk in pictures. I'm a Southern boy. That's like sticking an engine in a Fast and Furious car not knowing if the chassis has the ability to take the torque. You can put things into the body that do things for sure. There's a range of molecules, but that presupposes that your body has the capacity to receive, and it's called chemical pressure because I think everything in terms of, this is my woo-woo, energy frequency vibration, but not like what most people might think that terms are. But you have to know if your body has the ability to deal with what that's going to do with.

Yeah, the measurement's important.

That's it. That's the differentiator. That's what I specialize in helping people do. This is why a lot of the biohackers and the performance specialists and things like that, literally come to me, is to quantify those things and to help them increase performance. Now, of course, everybody's getting on the longevity buzzword. I was board-certified in anti-aging and regenerative medicine back in '08, so I've been in that space for a long time. Letcher and I train other physicians and all that. The reason why I share that is because we've been doing it for a while. It's not new, but it might be new to certain people. I want people to embrace mind-expansive things because I'm certainly not a conventional guy. I'm not an alternative or holistic guy either. I like I think there's a lot of medications that do wonderful things. But my point back to the thing is that you have to know how you're going to be able to particularly respond to one of these particular therapeutic models that you're trying to do or some of these therapeutic molecules themselves. That's it. It's just that balanced understanding. Do it with proper data. We do that in everything else we do.

We do it with, you test your equipment here, people in the marketing space, they do it with their Facebook ads and all your key performance indicators. I try to talk the language a lot of these CEOs and corporate types do. I said, Well, what's your KPIs? What are you monitoring? Well, I just heard this was that. The nicotine patches And then the things. I'm going, yes, all those are great therapeutic molecules in the context of the individual. That's really what it is, Sean. I really want people to understand that one point. That's the first critical message is that you're a category of one, and you need to know what you're dealing with That's what it is. It's all inside of you. But yeah, biohacking is really out of control.

Man, those nicotine pouches. So when Dave Asprey came on the show, he gave me a pouch. I started going dizzy during the episode. There you go. Well, I'm just like, I don't have a nicotine tolerance.

You just absolutely made the point of what that last little diatribe I made was. Exactly right there. It's characters like those that are not clinicians. They're brilliant marketers. Absolutely brilliant market. And They have top of mind awareness. They have followers, and they have people that say, Okay, well, this person says this. But here's the thing. The litmus test I want to teach, because I'm not telling people, Hey, just believe me either. No. I want people to learn to critically think and to go, okay, well, if somebody ever says, Try something, on the basis of what? Because in science, whenever we're doing a clinical trial or something, we have inclusionary and exclusionary criteria criteria to get the sample population. Now, sidebar, oftentimes that's skewed to whatever result they want to get because somebody's paying for it. But you try to homogenize the people based upon certain criteria so you can control for what you're trying to do. That's why it's just one thing. These people who are recommending things like nicotine patches or Methylene Blue or NAD or whatever the fads are of the day, they don't give any exclusionary criteria. They don't first ask you.

It's just like going to a chiropractor and not getting a physical exam or X-rays or something like that first before they start crack and stacking and whacking. You get your interior order or something. At the end of the day, it's that. That right there is what I see all the time. But you learned a lesson. The cool thing is, is I'm not going doom and gloom. You're going to be fine. It's not going to kill you, but it can harm. Literally, and I can show you, just three, four days ago, I had someone, they were talking about doing the cold plunge because everybody's loving the cold plunge. It's the biohacking thing.

Hot cold therapy.

Well, that's a different thing. I love hot cold therapy. I do it contrast-wise, but you're never going to catch me jumping into an ice bath or a cold plunge. It doesn't work I don't know what my autonomic nervous system is. But I had somebody, they tried it. They went full blast and jumped in there, and he got locked up instantly. Holy crap. Wife had to drag him out, and he had complete, not complete, paralysis, but his muscles were locked up for two weeks.

Oh my gosh. A cold plunge?

How cold was the water? I didn't get into that with him.

Because some people go insane with it, like Wim Hof, there's ice in there.

Yeah. And I get all that, and some people can tolerate I don't people say, I don't say, don't do it. I think that there's a way to have a balanced way of getting into it by starting with lower extremities first in cold things. But most of the time, you don't need to do that. We start throwing all these terms around cold shock proteins and heat shock proteins, which are true. But those are influenced by other things other than temperature. They're even influenced by fasting and stuff, which is another thing we could get into. But the thing about it is, cold has its place. Being a naturopathic doctor, the background of that was started with Monchuric neps, water therapy. They would blast cold water at people. The origins of where I was clinically trained is based Well, on water, or Baylyotherapy, where you actually get into baths of different chemical constituents. It's there. That's the take home. Those things are fantastic modalities. They have their place clinically. But why I'm a critic of the biohackers is because they're is telling everybody to do it because it does these supposed things. No context of the individual who's doing it, no data before they start it, no evaluating what the body's response is during or what are the consequences after of all All the systems.

I mean, doesn't that make sense? Yeah. For me, that's what it is. I'm not saying don't do these things. I'm not saying they don't have clinical merit. I'm saying that you need to find out about your biochemical individuality, the status of your biological terrain, what is your environment, your life your mindset, your nutrition, all those things. That's what happens. I see it all the time. Listen, we were just saying off camera, if I'm just going to say, is that I generally whenever they have these conferences, usually a couple of days or or after Mardi Van or something like that, they call me because, Hey, Doc, this happened to me. I did this. I'm at a party too much. So I see it. I have a lot of skin in the game. I see what these things can do, but I also hear all the bad stories, which are never going to be what No one's going to put those out on social media.

It would harm their business. Correct. Yeah.

That's the part. If you're one of those people, feel free to reach out, and I can help you recover. Because the other good news is I'm not saying all doom and gloom, Oh, you're going to die if you do these, I'm going to say, No, try them out. See what you're going to do. Most of the time, it's not that. But if you run into trouble, we can help you recover.

Which one of these tests do you think are BS? Because I've taken a lot of health tests. I've taken blood, I've taken the gene test, I've taken urine tests? Sure.

Well, here's the thing, the term test, right? It's like saying automobile. I have a nice little Vespa 350. That's an automobile. A Hummer's an automobile. A Tesla's an automobile. Tests. I just want to clear terms. You'll see, I like to put in terms and ask questions along the way. All of them have a premise, a place. The problem is, is there's no one single test that gives you the data that you need. You've got saliva, blood, poop, urine, biopsy. There's a lot of different tests. The problem is, and your audience can probably catch this right away. I get picked on about all the time. I'm very wordy, Irish Southerner. Why are you laughing? You just agree with me on that. That's good. But the thing is, I want to give the due diligence to it because I only have a limited time to instill people with these concepts. What I want to do is to say testing is there, just like in cardiology, we have tests, in neurology, we have their test, in gynecology. They all have different specialty tests. You could do a ton. I have high-end patients and people around the world that are flowing me to their hounds in different places and all that stuff.

But I really like regular folk. But the thing is, they want to do a whole bunch of things. They love all that. You don't need all that up front. Before I answer the thing about the test, tests are great. I have an unlimited battery available to me in them, but then their order of operations matters. There's certain things we don't have to test up front because I know that and things that we're going to do that wouldn't start dealing with air, water, light, sound, EMF, and food in people's lives are going to adjust those values so much. It doesn't even matter to get them at the first place. The inflammatory markers, homocysteine and CRP and all that stuff, and some of the inflammatory markers, we're going to move those so greatly up front, I don't test those there. But as far as those that are BS, well, there's a big adage out there now of gene testing. The reason why is because the market is vying for everyone's attention. People want answers, and they want it now. The number one complaint that I have from everybody that I see is, I'm so confused. I'm just so damn confused.

I don't know who to believe. Everybody contradicts things. A study will say this, and that is true. I always say my patients have been my greatest teachers, and I love them. My My clinical experience over three decades, 50,000 patients has taught me a lot through the lives of them. Sometimes it doesn't coalesce with what some of the scientific literature says. My stories to everybody else are anecdotal. That's the lowest level of evidence on the evidence. It's a science period. I recognize that. But who are you going to believe? Your mama or the science? You have to balance it. I'm not saying I have all the answers. I'm not what I call an IKEA. I know everything, asshole. I can say that, I'm sure. There's a lot of that. I'm always growing. Every situation is different with every patient. We're not just going to test all these things. We have a limited amount of time, and people want to access people's as revenue. They're going to do something like a gene test, and the narrative will go a little something like, Listen, you do this one test, one time in your life, and you never have to guess what you need to supplement for.

Right. Okay. That is patently false, and it's a lie because genes cannot tell you that at all. It's so amazingly not true. I was flabbergasted when I started seeing patients come. I'm so out of the social media stuff, not one of the talking hands, really. Patients came to me with it, and I was like, What in the heck is this? I was like, Why is he saying that? I knew right away what it was. I've been doing genetic SNPs since 2008. I have my report. I even looked at it when you pulled it. It's pretty funny and all my things. Human Genome Project really didn't release its stuff until '05, starting '02. But the point is, so gene tests are a scam. I hate to use that word because people say these words out there. Snakewell salesman scams. I'm funny with the terms because believe me, I've had my fair share of people bill me because I challenge conventional. But my point is, and to answer your question more directly, the gene tests are Because a gene codes for an enzyme that makes a protein, and oftentimes they're of the same name. But that does not tell you if that gene is even in expression or not.

Even if it is in expression, it doesn't tell you to what avail or in what consequence or in what consequence of the gene that comes before it or the one that comes after it that it relies upon. You can't do a test for five genes out of over 20,000, and you're looking for what's called a single nucleotide polymorphism, a SNP, not a gene break. We can use the word mutation if we want. But when the Genome 1,000 project after that went on, you know how many SNPs we have found? 650 million. Holy crop. That's the number. 650 million SNPs. You want to tell me that some test of five is going to tell you what you should supplement? It's just it's absurd. It really is. There's no other way to clean that up. But then, of course, there's the pills, potions, and powders that are the fix, and that monthly subscription. It's a brilliant business model for the person doing it, but not for the patients that are left behind because of it.

Is there any truth to the MTHFR one, where basically they're saying you're allergic to fortified and rich grains? Have you heard of that one?

Yeah, but that's not true at all. It is not supported by the scientific literature or my personal first-hand clinical experience at all. Not at all. Not even close. Well, we'll talk about that one. The mother effort gene, the MTHFR, everyone gets that. Why? Because it has a fun name. See, no one wants to talk about... Well, let's talk about one. Well, here's the one that's very similar. Let's get into it because I want to be mindful of the time. Mthfr MTHFR is a gene that codes for an enzyme that has a job. Every single person, every homo sapien, homo sapien, has the MTHFR gene. There's no having it. See, that's the other tool is to tell you have it. You have something? You have hajimotos. I call it the name it, blame it, claim it, tame it game. If you have this gene mutation, I have the MTHFR gene mutation. My methylation is solid, absolutely perfect in every way, shape, and form. I'm not being arrogant. I just know because I know the nutrients that govern it. The word is, and correct me if I'm wrong, if you get this thing. This is the marketing shtick is that if you have MTHFR, it's bad, or dirty, dirty gene.

In other words, they're assuming that it's not performing or can't do it. I hear it being told that if you have MTHFR, you can't methylate.

Yeah, if you have...

There's red and yellow So that's-Yeah, right. That's the combination if it's homozygous or heterozygous, right?

Right. They're saying if both parents pass that down, it's red and you can't process it.

If you can't methylate, you'd be dead. That's great. That's the first litmus. Again, don't believe me, you can't put in the ChatGPT because ChatGPT, whatever.

You think ChatGPT is inaccurate when it comes to this?

It's incredibly inaccurate.

Wow.

What I can give people is literally, because I train physicians mostly, that's what I do. I teach them this method clinically because they're tired of the medical model that doesn't work. I train other docs. The thing is, I have all these tools, and I build these charts, personal charts, so that way I can teach them these things, complex things and the simple stuff. I'm more than happy to give it anybody who wants a copy of it. What I did was, is I showed that MTHFR is determinant by the genes that preceded it. See, in other words, you have dietary folates and synthetic. Oh, my God, synthetic. That term cracks me up because it sounds real sinister. Folic acid. Then that, it has to be received. It has to come through a membrane. You have to have a receptor for it first. There's a gene for that one. What about that gene? What about the folate receptor? Then it has to go through a series of conversions, primarily the one is called DHFR. That one no one looks at, but that's the one that's converging. It's not converting folic acid. Ntfr is not converting folic acid to 5-methylfolate or for 5-tetrahydropholate.

It's not. That's not even the gene that does what they're saying it does. It's the DHFR. Look it up. You could see it's not like I have a proprietary knowledge of it. It's there. Then there's a step there, and there's a couple of other ones that involved. Then that hands off this form to MCHFR. Here's the drop. Mchfr is B₂ or riboflaven dependent. If that MCHFR has a potential It's a little decrease in efficiency in doing its job because of either being homo or heterozygous, yellow or red on the little chest, the correction for it, the support, is not throwing in more preformed 5 That's what the people who sell that gene test do, is they sell you the 5-7 fuit of folate. The thing is, it's B2. Look it up. It's riboflave. It's MTHFR. It's what's called a prosthetic. Because remember, all these things are electrochemistry. Folate is a construct of an amino acid, glutamic. It's a vitamin with an amino acid backbone. Amino acids are literally just electrons. You They have a certain configuration, and they literally fold. I don't want to get too sciencey. I've been, Okay, don't go, you lose people.

Sorry about that. In other words, but I want people to know why it's doing what it's doing. You have this form of folate that gets handed to MTHFR, but they never tell you where MTHFR gets the methal group from. It comes from the serine glycine cycle, another amino acid duo. It gives it the carbon-hydrogen construct. Then it attaches it, and then sends it up. You've got homocysteine, and then it hands it to... Because it's got to go through methionine synthase, and then synthase hands it off to MTHFR. Then MTHFR says, Okay, hey, give me that backbone. If B2 is there as a prosthetic and serine gives me the methalgroupe, bam, now I can turn that back into methionine. They don't tell you that in the stuff. They just go, Oh, you have MTHFR, SNP, you got to take this supplement.

Yeah. I've seen them tell pregnant women not to take folic acid if they have that gene break, right?

Okay. Well, if I could respectfully see, that's the thing, that words matter to me. There's no gene breaks. There's no such thing.

But that's what they say.

Well, they're incorrect. That's what I'm saying. That's my claim. It's not broken, and there's not a break in that gene. Then, you know what you're getting me started? There's even what are called indels, right? Insertion and deletion things. That's a whole another part that none of these people talk about. That has everything to do with everything, like the BRCA1 gene for and breast cancer risk and stuff like that, that's an indel. There's so much more of these people. They have no idea because they're not clinicians.

Right.

They're not.

They're marketers.

That's right. Brilliant at that. So they're better than me. They're multibillionaires, and I'm not. That's okay. I'm not hating them. I just want to clear the record. I care and love for my patients and my clients because I don't practice medicine. I don't diagnose or treat illness. I educate. Folic To say don't give folic acid to pregnant women, sometimes that would be incorrect because see, if you drive a bunch of folic acid into a pathway and you run them through multiple gene SNPs, which people aren't looking at, and you put too much chemical pressure on another SNP in the absence of the nutrients that control it. You know how we always say, Well, magnesium is needed by everybody. Over 300 enzymatic reactions, that is correct, was actually more than that, even though there's no list of all these 300, we all say that. But what I'm talking about is a magnesium dependent pathway. Magnesium is involved, Zinc is involved, B2 is involved, B6 is involved. There's a lot more to it. So vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids are what control these snips. So that's where I play. I functionally look at those and we get all the gene snips for free.

Then we correct them, and then guess what? Stop the supplements. I own a nutraceutical company. I have mine. It's not private label. I literally own my own facility, my own machines, my own formulation. There's a big difference. I'm bad for business because I say, Stop taking it, won't you? But it made me feel better. But it wasn't because of the So then now you feel better because you're taking that. So in order to defeat it. No. Let your diviny created self be able to take over from there. Folic acid has tens of thousands of studies in the literature of its safety and efficacy. Yes, you can create troubles in those who do have multiple of those snips, one or more, by pushing too much folic acid on the pathways. So they're correct in saying that. I don't like to use the fear mongering terms of it's toxic or it causes it. Because you know what else, Sean? Metholfolate will do it, too. I see it all the time people being injured by taking metholfolate because they were told to take it because of the presence of the SNP when they were not deficient in it.

It causes something called folate trapping. People can look that up. Folic acid can contribute to it. Metholfolate can contribute to it. Plus, if you've also been suckered by these same gene test people says you also need to take trimethylglycine, which is another part of the pathway just before homocysteine that adds that same group. So boom, you start pushing all this TMG in, start pushing in metholfolate, and what everything is supposed to just magically be great, There's a consequence to that. Your body cannot always process it. Some people are fine. I'm not fear mongering or being duplicitous. I don't want people to think, Well, you're just trying to scare people. No, I'm not doing that at all. I'm saying, Hey, what if I could show you a lab that you can do before, during, and after and see? That's what I do. It's a marker called forminaminoglutemic acid or figlu. That is the functional marker for folate metabolism. It's substantiated in the scientific literature, and it's repeatable. I do it in the urine. That's part of a urine lab that I do. We take a look at that. Yes, if you have excess of Figlu, that is a functional deficiency in folate.

We should add some in. What do I also do? I test MTHFR. Why? Because that helped. What is it useful for? Because that's what we really want to know. I take a look at MTHFR because I want to know how I can dose the patient because it's like, do you try to put your head out of the window at 100 miles an hour and take a breath? You can't do it. 10 miles an hour, you can do it. What the gene SNAP does tell us and helps us with clinically is how to give them that correction in a way that doesn't cause the adverse reactions. We do that same thing in medicine, too. When it comes to certain drugs, your SNPs have a play because they have to clearance them, your cytochromia P450 system, and we look at those SNPs, too. That's the difference. Sometimes that's It's hard to explain. Of course, this doesn't pan well in a quick little video or a snippet. It takes a lot of explaining. That's what it is. Folic acid is a problem for people who do overconsume it because of of the fortified foods that do include it.

Yes, I agree with my colleagues in that, and I call them my colleagues, okay? But the context is that doesn't mean it's bad prima facia. It's not. The reason why it was added to the food supply is because so many people didn't get it. They didn't have availability of dietary folates. Then you have the whole camps of plants are bad. The plants that have the folate that isn't the synthetic folate, are the same ones that they like to demonize for anti-nutrients, which is another ridiculous-I haven't heard that one. Oh, you haven't heard of that? Anti-nutrients? Yeah, anti-nutrients. So oxalates, lectons, phytates, and these are all things that are plant protective chemicals because the plant's-Oh, I've heard that. To eat them that narrative. Well, the problem with that is, is so then that scares people to not eat the plants because they're scared of oxalates. It gives them stones and all that stuff. We can go down that rabbit hole, too.

I think I saw Paul Saladino talk about this.

Yeah, and he's incorrect. Oxylates are anions, and the body forms them from prolene to hydroxyprolene, which comes from animal product. The vast majority of people I've seen who have oxylate problem that electrochemistry in the body had a lack of dietary plants.

Really?

Yeah. It's just the opposite in my clinical thing. What I have people do is go look at it. I say, go look up oxalates or oxalic acid, hydroxyprolene, and where does hydroxyprolene come from? You'll find it comes from the animals.

Wow.

But I'm not saying animals causes people to have kidney stones or oxalate problem. I'm not I'm not saying that plants will not give you stones or oxalate problems. That's not what I'm saying. I do not speak in absolutes very often. Sometimes I do.

It's hard to give absolute health advice to everyone.

The reason why you can't... I can tell everybody, Don't drink your urine. You're not going to give that guess on the tip of your urine. Why? Because I test thousands of markers in that fee, and there's no damn way anybody needs to be drinking it. It's absurd. I have an entire library on that urine therapy I've been around a long time.

I'm going to set up a debate for you with my urine expert. Let's do it. I'll set that up. Jonathan Otto. He drinks his urine every day.

Okay. Now, he might do fine. There's people who live in India and São Paulo who drink that water, and in Mexico. But if we went down there, we'd probably have a trouble. See, there's context. But again, that's another individual who is not a clinician. They're a digital marketer. They host supplements, summits, and funnels, and they've gone to all the different conversion, and they've gotten in and then become passionate about it. Okay, go ahead. I'm not going to go, Oh, my God, don't be having that stuff either. I don't do that. People are their own boss. But that's the whole thing is in urine, there's too much stuff in there. That is the waste product of the stuff. Now, can we grab stem cells from the urine? Yes, but they don't tell you that. But you have to get those stem cells out through a very specific process that cannot be done in the home. Does urine have compounds in it? That could be beneficial to helpful It does. See, I agree with that. But that doesn't mean anybody should just... You see the context? That's all I really want to have people try to understand.

That's how it is with the genes. It's how it is with supplements and all these other things. The folate issue with plants are bad for you. It's just crazy. I've never in my career known of any physician, I've trained hundreds of them, thousands actually, to ever have any patient die or have comorbidities directly connected to an excess consumption of plants.

Really?

Or animals. I don't believe the vegans who say, Oh, meat's bad for you, too, and it rots in the gut and it causes cancer. That's just as absurd.

Brian Johnson is saying that right now.

Well, Brian Johnson is what?

He's a vegetarian, right?

No, I don't know him personally. I know of his story because he's all out there and people have bought it to me, but he is a non-clinician. He's a extremely wealth individual who has the time and that stuff that most people watch in this show It doesn't do. It doesn't have. That's him. Look at all the other things. You can do some crazy things if you're doing some other things. You can afford to do that. If you make a million a year, you can spend a million a year. You can't spend a million on a dollar. You see what I mean? Yeah. The vast majority of people who don't have all the 200,000, now it's 300,000 hyperbaric machine because Damon Jones was talking about the new one now. This one's 300,000 hyperbaric300K now? Well, the ones that the ultimate human people are selling.

Holy crap.

I have a $40,000 lightbed. Okay, so I don't want to come off not a little bit bougey, but I would never do that because literally every topic you hear in biohack and stuff like that, I definitely have a profound amount of insight into it. You got to understand that's the world that I'm in, and I don't tell people not to do it. Yes, I have a bunch of well-off and famous individuals, but that's not everybody. We have to work with them differently. See, their story is different. What they want to do, what they have access and the capacity to do is different than everybody else.

I pay for an Oxygen Chamber membership in Vegas.

Yeah, but see, again, can I just apply this to you? Did you do any data collection prior? Are you doing a clearing? Are you measuring your monitoring?

I actually did. I got a brain scan at Amen Clinics, and they recommended to do some oxygen. I'm going to get another scan in a year, see if it worked. Right now, I don't know if it worked.

That's good data. Okay, but so then here's what I would do. I would say, what specifically is oxygen doing? What are you attempting to do with that?

I had a TBI.

Okay, so you had a TBI. That's a subspecialty of mine, by the way. Matter of fact, I'll name him because I love him to death. Dr. Marc Gordon, he was at that conference. He and I have some mutual patients, one of which, and him has been on Joe Rogan's podcast three or four times, Andrew Mar. He tells a fantastic story, how he saved his life. Now, I'm not mentioned because there's politics and things, and that's okay.

Mark's been on the show, by the way.

Yeah, in Love Him To Death. He and I have lectured at a lot of places together. I know him.

Yeah, solid guy.

He is a solid guy. His daughters and everything. It's a beautiful family. The thing is, though, is our patient named their twin sons after both of us.

Wow. Okay, so it's Beck. You really impacted that family. That's cool. Of course.

But the only reason why I share that with you is because I do want to impart to the listeners that just because I'm not out there doesn't mean I don't know where I'm at. Because if there is a, Well, what about this guy? I don't know everything, but I know how things work. When it comes to TBI, Mark Gordon, that's his specialty. I was one of the first doctors that helped go through his thing. I actually lectured and taught those doctors, inaugurally, for that thing. I'm very familiar with TBI. Okay? I just want to establish that. Hyperbarics and oxygen and different modalities are great. But here's the thing. All of that puts pressure on your biological terrain. Your vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids. If you are not evaluating those sequentially and at the same time, you're missing data. Because all that... I'll give you just one example. One of them is it puts the responses on our phospholipid bilayer, on the membranes of our cells and of our organelles, not just the mitochondria. Mitochondria gets all the love these days in the biohacking world, but no one checks the biomarkers of the mitochondria. I do on every one of my patients.

Yeah, I've never heard of someone doing that.

That's what I do. Even if somebody comes in to me for psoriasis or toenail fungus, I don't care what it is because I don't treat diseases. I'm going to look at those markers. But back to your thing. The membrane composition has everything to do with it. What is your percentage of omega-6s omega-3s and your fatty acids, the sterols and the fatty acids that basically combine to make the membrane. Then now you have all the proteins that go through it and all the channels and things that these hyperbarics and oxygen therapies and cryos and all those external energies put on it. But no one looks, well, wouldn't you want to know if you have hypo or hyperpermeable membranes? What if we're going to start pushing more anions through there? Can it handle it? On its way through, is it going to create more reactive oxygen species? What pushing oxygen pressure does? But here's the thing, and I'm not scaring people because I'm not doing what I'm saying I don't like people doing. I'm going, a lot of people can handle it until they can't, until something pops, and then they don't ever come back and tell that story.

They come to somebody like myself.

Yeah, you never heard that story. Nope.

I've seen countless thousands of them. Really? That's my career. Wow. I'm the fixer.

Damn. From Oxen Chambers, you've seen people have issues with those? Yeah.

Just for fun, because I do want to wake people up with some challenging stories. You can go look up the story of Tommy Cooper. I wasn't involved in that one. And what happened in a hyperbaric chamber here recently on that. Damn. He's no longer with us.

Wow. From the auction chamber? Yes, child. Holy crap.

But I You're not scaring people because think of all the thousands of units that they're not having that happen. What I'm saying is this willy-nilly, trying all these different things. Think of it this way. Hyperbarics. Hyperbarics with methylene blue. Hyperbarics with Methylene blue under exertion. Hyperbarics with Methylene under exertion, or whatever with photobiomodulation and plus nicotine. See, it's all a different thing. It makes a different sandwich. You change the composition, and you're going to have a different sauce.

Yeah, there's a lot of... They call it health stacking, right? Yeah.

Because it all sounds cool. But what if we took every herb and spice and put it into all the soup at once? Every single one of them. Now we've lost the dish. I always will say, I'm lovely and That's why health is... Because I was a chef for 12 years. I love food, so I have to... I love it. Me too. I mean, food is not the enemy. It is definitely not.

Food is life.

Oh, gosh. It brings people together. That's my other philosophy on that, just real quick is that see, food also brings with it something non-tangible but energetic, and that's conversation and laughter, connection and community and all that mindset thing. That has a huge impact on your health. How you eat your food, where you eat your food, who you eat that food with all puts on an energetic signature to it.

No, I agree 100%.

Okay, cool. See how that's a person's story? There's some people that are just at home eating alone, and it's helpful, but they're sad and they're miserable. That's my big message is to never forget that you are a category of one. I call it context-cubed. Like real estate, we say location, location, location. I say context, context, context. I don't want to be confused for being wishy-washy. You're not giving a It's a great answer because I want people to know that there's layers that make the person. There's parts of their story. That's why I say your environment, your lifestyle, your mindset, and your nutrition. It's not just one, it's all of them. But you can focus on one, and you can have some great It's all these things happen. But when you don't and you get stuck or confused or you made some bad choices, I'm here to help you. When it comes to these things, this is what happens is people have great intentions. Of course, they turn to social media. I'm all over social media. My greatest followers are on TikTok. I have a TikTok habit.

Let's go.

I really love it. Good 80,000 followers. No, that's not the much. But my wife does it, too. It's a lot of fun. She beats me all the time.

I'm banned right now, TikTok, if you're wondering.

I saw that. I was going to tag you on the-I get banned once a week.

I love it.

They came after me a few times. I always got mine back, though. So stay in there.

They hit me for medical misinformation all the time because of my guests.

Yeah, I get it. It's a tough world. But see, my thing is I don't believe in any type of censorship. I think all the people who are selling all the different things that I'm critical I love. I don't want them banned. I don't want them silenced or anything like that. I'm going to go, That's them, and here's what I say, and then you decide for yourself.

That's how I treat the podcast, too. I have on all sorts of perspectives.

Yeah, you really do. I mean, I've followed you for a long time, and I like that. See, that's what people need, not doom and gloom and sadness, and they're killing us, and they use all these terms. Poisoning us. It's messing up people's mental health. It's incredible. I see lots of that. They're like, Doc, why should I even effing care? I give It's everywhere.

Yeah, doctors must be really feeling this right now.

Yeah, but then the other thing is, but the trouble in the conventional allopathic space is that model doesn't afford any time with the patient. You get 7. 6 minutes to bill your $32 to their insurance because somebody ever paid for it. So they have to patient stack. There's no time in the clinical encounter to go over these questions that people come in with a stack of stuff, which I tell patients to do. I was like, Listen, you got to have these questions answered. But then now there's this other trend is that people just taking their blood work and putting it into ChatGPT and spitting out what it means.

Wow, people are doing that? Yup.

They're saying, Well, I got better answers than my doctor. I'm going, Okay, maybe. But then now what? Then I saw what they said, and this is where the rubber hits the road. Well, then it goes, Well, what do you do with that information? It's always, What do you do after you get some data? You have the data, but then now what does it mean? And equal, that's the biggest difference. You can have information, but not know how to deal with it. I could give you a map, and you don't know what country it's in, you're not going to know what's up. Then ChatGPT spits out, ready for it, man, this holistic medicine, whole list of pills, potions, and powders. I'm going, Oh, my God. See, that's the problem. It's doing the same thing where it aggregated its information from that people do. I'm here in town, and I have a very famous person I'm working with. He just saw this doctor nurse practitioner, and she did some of these labs, and great labs. I love CBCs and differentials, and chem-14s and cholesterol panels and all that stuff. But if you're going to go that route, there's other markers that you should be putting in there, and I understand why they don't pull them.

Cost more for them.

That or insurance doesn't reimburse them for them because we all... But this individual will pay for anything. He's well fine. But the practitioner doesn't know to pull these. But the answer because functional, because listen, I'm in functional. I've been a functional medicine guy since the beginning, and the ones that... They know me. I'm not happy with those universities and I have many people. These educating bodies are crazy because they teach this broken model. They call it root cause, but it's not root cause. They're going to tell everybody the same thing. They're going to use terms like inflammation and leaky gut and adrenaline fatigue and all that stuff that don't really exist in reality. Those are marketing terms.

Yeah, I hear a leaky gut every day on Instagram.

There's increased intestinal permeability, but leaky gut is a marketing term. That's why you don't see it in the scientific literature referred like that. See, always look for the term because it imparts something, but we can come back to leaky gut if you want. But ChatGPT spit it out. No, spit it. Spit out. Sorry, mom. The thing is, She always used to pick on me for doing stuff like that. I'm like, That's because I'm sorry, mom. See, I'm not perfect. The thing is, is all these herbs and supplements, and that's the fix. I remember back in the day, there was this book that was in all the health food stores called The Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Phyllis and her husband. I know this. That's what it did. Everybody would go and they say, Okay, you have X, Y, or Z. You call it something. As you name something, then now you'll take ownership of it. Then you say, I have it. Then we need to blame it on Then now we need to tame it with something. They give all these pills, potions, and powders. Chatgpt did that, too. I really want to caution people for sticking your health information into there.

Now, guess what? I'm not saying don't do it because then now you can, on your own free time and dime, get those answers that the medical model can't provide you in the clinical encounter because number one, they can't because of how they practice. I help doctors free themselves from that model so they can give their patients those times. But I don't blame them for that. But then now you can go in and just differentiate with them and partner with your health care provider. Now, they're limited on what they can do in scope because that world is the side that has the What do I want to say? I want to be... In other words, they have the ability to imprison people. So they have the police state powers in only one part of it. That's why it's not a It's a good thing, and it needs some work. But there's no holistic, functional, integrative, or anything like that police force that enforces that one. See, so only one realm has the ability to cuff and stuff people or take away licenses and all that stuff.

That's true because a supplement space is a wild wild. It's crazy.

Yeah. It's a hundred billion a year annually. Yeah.

So you talk about that on Bradley, 118 billion dollars. It's like, oh, my gosh.

I thought it was way less. And I thought it was in your sense. So I quoted that less But at the end of the day, they're needed. Because how else are we going to do it? Because food is not going to have it always. And people, we need to get results. So we rely upon these bottles to be able to do that, right?

I've heard, I don't know if this is true, some guy said you can't eat You're not vitamin D3 anymore. You have to supplement it.

That's not true at all. Really? First of all, we shouldn't be eating vitamin D3. It's called the sunshine. And if you don't get the sunshine, you get UVB radiation. And I teach patients how to make their own lamp. It's so easy.

It's crazy. Oh, It's just desk lamps, right?

Well, no. I actually, because I love photography, I have a studio, too. Actually, I get a tripod and a thing and reptile bulbs, which there's preferred ones, some that are better not because we're talking how much UVA, UVB. I don't want all my dermatologist It leads to freak out because they don't like that either ways. Or you can buy a Spurdy. Let's name drop. You can spend $400 and get one that's fantastic.

It's the one everyone in New York City has, right? Yeah, it's great. Seeing that one.

I don't want to put it on my face or my body because in my room, in my house, I've got all my stuff, and my Spurdy sits on the floor. Five minutes, and I just put it on my legs.

It's not bad. Lower legs.

That's it. And boom, shackalack. It goes, and I live in Florida. But I'm 53. My wife's 17 years younger than me. I want to be youthful and look good and be strong and healthy as well. I don't want to get all leathered up. There's something about Mary stuff looking like sausage.

You see that in Florida.

Oh, my gosh. It's bad. It can be an issue. But that's how you want to do it. That's the way it does it. Because see, what's really cool about vitamin D, see it has a gene, too. There's the VDR receptor. But guess what? The same person and people who talk about that, that's not even in their gene test. Here, there are huge advocates It's a vitamin D, but they're not even looking at the VDR snipp. That's crazy. You see what I'm saying? I'm like, wow. Then here's the thing. But then the also narrative is there's a receptor in every cell of the body for vitamin D. That's how important it is. Well, yeah. Well, guess what? Right beside it is what's called its heterodimer is the RxR or the retinol or retinoid receptor, a vitamin A receptor, because you can't... Vitamin D, it's a shared receptor, and they both have to be dealt with and activated. Okay, so vitamin A is just as important as vitamin D. They do different things. But the problem is this, the body at any given time has approximately about 5,000 IU in circulation, and that's what it's able to deal with.

You start pushing in 10 20, Dr. Berg. Even my colleague with me, after I mentioned, he pushes a large number. I like vitamin D. It's fantastic. Yes, we do orally supplement it when it's clinically necessary. But the thing is, when you take it orally, yes, you have to go, Oh, got to take K₂. You don't have to take K₂ when you get it from the sun. Isn't that interesting?

That is very interesting.

See, I want people to critically think for a second. Why isn't everybody doing it? Because you can get it from food. But yes, if you push in a huge bolus of this prohormone, and it's going to force this chemical, electrochemical pressure on the body to do something, it can go awry in the absence of K₂. So yes, you should include K2 with it, properly ratioed, certain micrograms to it. Yes, there's supplements for that, and that's great. But everybody shouldn't do it. I could tell you how beautiful and all that. We could sit there and talk about molybdenumab. We could talk about manganese. We could talk about B3. Everybody, Oh, I want to take that. I test every one of my patients for all of those functionally. There is a marker. Some are in the blood, some are in the urine to determine how the body is using the amount that you're consuming now in real time.

Wow.

If you don't, then we just supplement a little bit while we increase the food source. See, that's what they're called supplements. Supplements are not food. They're supplemental to what? To food. A lot of the foods that are great for that, people demonize depending on what camp you're in. Lever. There's nature's multivitamins. Yeah, but I'm not eating liver.

You're not liver king out here?

No, sir. Will I take desiccated liver capsules at times if it's necessary? Sure. But you see what I mean? Then you got the capsules that have all the dehydrated vegetables and fruits in them and the berries and I'm going, just in physics, it's equivalent to 11 servings. If you took 11 servings of anything and then cry it and turned it into powder, you couldn't fit it into a capsule. That's a marketing.

Yeah, that one never made sense to me.

It's not true, but yet they do it. It's part of their stick, but people get away with it. It's the same thing like vitamin D and K2. Yes, it's a very useful molecule compound together, and it does certain things. But now where I differ from a lot of people is what is deficient? But see, check this. Most people are saying, just take it anyways. They go, Well, you need a fish oil supplement, you need magnesium, and you need vitamin D and K3, and K2. I'm going, Isn't that funny that they just give it to everything? Yeah.

If you're not deficient, why would you need more? Yeah.

Why are you using... I don't even tell me the brand, but why are you using this brand one? Why aren't you using one of the other ones that starts with an R? What about the one that starts with the Y that looks better? I have the old-fashioned Elvis Presley microphone from Sure. That's But not everybody needs the same thing. It depends upon the environment that you're in. This studio is not my house studio. So using as an example, you can't just give everybody the same supplements. I think that's just... It's reckless.

That's what I realized when I tried to copy Brian Johnson. I was taking 30 a day, and I felt like shit. That was the worst I probably felt.

See what I'm saying? See, if you have the data, you can determine if you need it or not. And then what I call quantify, qualify, measure, and monitor. Q-square, M-square. Take it for there. Look at what you're trying to modulate, and then when it gets there, stop.

Yeah, that's where I'm at now. I only take what I'm deficient in now.

Your genes cannot tell you if you're deficient in anything.

Yeah, not from blood test, I mean. Okay.

I just want to make sure. Not the gene test. Okay, yeah, because genes can't do that, but they're sold to tell you that. The DNA company, all these people, they have these great things. They're all started by marketing guys. They've never seen a patient in their life. They're not clinically trained, but that's okay. You can have the knowledge. I don't care about that. The truth is the truth no matter where it comes from. But the thing is, is understanding how it applies to the individual who's different than everybody else. That's my message. I know how everybody tends to have this frustration of who to believe. I'd rather say, Don't believe any of us. Look at the information, get some data, and then ask some questions. Who's going to be here to serve you in that regard? You don't really need to go try to be superhuman for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Okay. I'm telling everybody, you need to do all these things. Any of that homogenized stuff is crazy. I don't do any of those. I take one supplement and I make it. That's all. Because I'm maximized in how I eat and feed my body, and those four factors, environment, lifestyle, mindset, nutrition, I'm gold.

I don't have to. And that's what I want people to get to, is to where they don't need us. They don't need the supplements. They don't need the doctors. They don't need the consultants and the coaches.

That's impressive as someone who owns a supplement company. I know.

And people are like, yeah, and believe you me, I've been invited into the cabal. I've been invited into the Mafia, and we've had legal interactions, and I've beat them all. Wow. Okay? Because the truth shall keep and make you free, and I won't stand for it. My character is my most valuable possession. Okay? Until my dad passed away, he said, Son, until I'm gone, that's my name. Okay? And so I'm passing that down to my daughter, that same thing. I'm not going to do the marketing stuff or lie or Well, now you have inflammation. I'm going to say this, $8,000 detox. And by the way, you should drink your pee. That's crazy. It's all over. We have to joke about it a little bit. I'm not mad or angry at those people. I just see them for who they are. I'm just going to give a different message to people and say, Hey, if this resonates with you, reach out to me and we can talk, and I can help point you in the right direction. It might not be a good fit. I might not be the one for you, but I want to educate, motivate, and inspire That's my job.

That's really what I want to do. I know people are inundated with these things and the biohacking, and it is cool, man. Don't get me wrong. I have all the equipment because I play with them, too, because I want to have skin in the game. But there are certain things that are just I'm amazed that people don't quantify them. Phones and stuff, there's not an EMF sticker that you can put on anything that's going to block or mitigate EMF at all.

Really?

That's a fact. It can't. I have an entire course I give every patient who goes in a program with me. It's over 60 hours where I get into air, water, light, sound, EMF, and food. I literally show them how I've tested them all. I show you how to do it, too, and not the way that some people just do them, smoke and mirror stuff, but it can't. Now, placebo is a powerful thing, which is why we account for it in science and in medicine. It's that powerful before us. To do a randomized controlled trial, placebo control, we have to account for it because it is so powerful. What I do, as I said, but use that as a A wonderful motivator of how amazing it is your mind, what the mindset does.

That's crazy because some of these EMF stickers are like, three, $400.

I bought the techs, the 8... What's the name? And they're horrible. They don't do what they do. They don't conduct, neither do the patches people the rage of and all the rage of and all the MLMs. It's a marketing model that I respect for its brilliance. Okay? But yikes. I work with a lot of MMA fighters and Spartan athletes and these people and different people who want to do different cocktails of sauces and stuff. I work for them. My patient is the boss, not me. If they want to do those things, I say, Well, that's your choice. I'm going to give you in my advisements, I suggest we look at these things. If you want to do a control burn, we can do it. If it's vanity-based or whatever or performance-based, like, Doc, I don't care. This is how I make my money. It's on stage or in the field or what I'm doing. I even I do a lot of pro bono work for the military Special Forces. I'm just talking about them. They write about me in the books, and it's really cool and humbling. They wanted to do some of those things because their job causes them to call upon that.

I get it. But I say, well, let's at least do some quantify, qualify, measure, and monitor so we can deal with what we deal with. If you overdo something, we're going to have to fix it. I'm like a pit crew. But you got to go out there and win that race. I know. Just give me a little bit more boost. Okay. I don't judge or do that, the patient. But at the end of the day, there's certain things that have an edge and other things that don't. You can try these different things. If you're not working with someone to evaluate what you're doing, you're wasting your time and money and just making it worse, and you're going to pull the F at lever. I've experienced that in patients' lives more times than I'd like to admit. It's frustrating. Up to an including of them no longer being living.

Totally, bro.

That's the frustration. I'll tell you the story I talked about with Brad, was my patient, Mike Day. He's a Navy SEAL, shot 27 times, blown up by a grenade. The USO Care Coalition, they gave that case to me because people couldn't fix it. They gave me Mike and his wonderful wife, Brenda, at the time. We embarked on it, and he didn't like me. He talked about it very candidly. He couldn't stand me. In his book, Perfectly Wounded, he talked about that. But fast forward... That's a great story. Unfortunately, Mike took his life some months ago. This is coming from a guy who told me I saved his life. I still work with this. Matter of fact, I could tell this story. Anyway, people get so frustrated and tired of how they're treated, whether they're a model, and then in life, things It means change. That's my point of sharing the story, and it does joke me up, it's obvious. Because it's a wonderful recovery story. It's brilliant. It just goes to show you how bad things can be, but you can really do some fantastic stuff, and it humbles my life, and I like to share that story.

But at the end of the day, and it was funny because the dev group, people, still team does, they're very tight, and they're very suspect of people. There's a lot of stolen valor and stuff out there. One of my very close friends was on the show, Doc Parsley. Matter of fact, he's the one who contacted me and let me know what happened with Mike. Then I called. Anyways, I don't know how it's called. See, I'm very transparent, man. I'm just real in that, and I just want people to know. But these stories, they affect my life, and I learn from them, and I just want to caution people. The world is filled with all kinds of things. In Mike's case, he just couldn't stand what the care to vets have become in the absence of it and where the country was going. Despite the fact that we did so much with his health and gave him his life, back then, years later, he just makes a decision. It's tough. I don't want other people to have that either. Because people are like, Oh, the microplastics, and all these other things. I asked her if I could tell the story, if ever I'd mention it.

Mike's wife was Brenda. Her and her daughter are still my patients. I still take care of them. It's just the legacy. Not even about a year ago, whatever, she didn't want to bother me. She said, I could tell it. So love you, She went to a doc. She lives in Virginia Beach. Tested her vitamin D. He said it was low. They started giving her 10,000 IU. Wrecked her. Completely rocked her world. She called me out of desperation and said, Doc, you got to fix me, and I go, What happened? I go, Oh, boy. You see what I'm saying? That's just one relative to that. It just came to me. The thing is, these things have their place, but they also have a potential detriment. The take home is exactly what we've talked Biohacking and stuff like that is cool. It's fun. It's entertaining. But it suffers from a very debilitating fallacy, and that is they're not properly quantifying things. Absolutely. They're not given any inclusionary/exclusionary criteria, and there's no support when it fails for you. You can't go back to the booth and say, Hey, this happened to me. You can't call them up and say, Your Methylene Blue did this, or your Hyperbaric did this, or your Zapper did this, or it didn't do You can't.

It's over. No, it's over. I took 10,000 IU of D3 once. I thought I was going to die. It was crazy.

See what I mean? Thank you for sharing. No, it felt so bad.

I almost went to the ER.

But there are those. Let's play the thing. Almost went to the ER. They'll say, Oh, it's fine. I take 10,000 every day. Exactly. What does that prove? Biochemical individuality, your uniqueness. But I just asked this. If someone's ever going to tell you to take something, I want you to ask them, What is it going to do specifically? And then how are we going to track its effect? When do I stop? When do I get off the highway? What is the inclusionary/exclusionary criteria? If they can't do that, well, then I would suggest that you not do it.

That's why I'm not a fan of TRT because once you're on it, it doesn't look like you can get off pretty easily.

No, you can. But yeah, but that does that, too. At the end of the day, there's other things we could do. You don't have to do it. In clomaphein, it's a wonderful marker, a molecule, but you got to measure the markers with You don't have to take the shots all the time. And that's what's funny. And then I think I talk it with Brad is the common things. So I've laughed here recently because I had this conversation with somebody who was on the carnivore side who was, of course, doing testosterone injections. And I talked about how funny it was that they were injecting themselves with seed oil.

What? Yeah. Someone's doing that?

Well, of course. What testosterone is in. It's either in Sesame, cotton seed, or grape seed.

In TRT?

Yeah. Testosterone. The sipium, your vial, it's oil-based, right? I didn't know that. I know. See, people don't ask.

Wow. No.

No, I don't have any problem with it. I'm not going to go down the seed oil thing.

So you're not anti-seed oil?

Not in the least. Okay.

Because there's a lot of people that are- Because it's the new trend.

It's sexy. But I use organic, non-GMO, cold-pressed canola, grape, all of it. I use avocado, I use beef tallow, I render down my own pork fat from bacon, and I clarify that. I love all of them. See, I eat a varied and diverse diet. My thing is, is if it doesn't make you crap your pants, vomit, intoxicates you or give you an adverse reaction, you can eat it. All of it. These stories of plants not wanting us to eat them, well, I don't think cows want bolts in their head either. It's silly. It's all food. It's all consumable in the proper context, in the proper amount, in the proper combinations, for the proper sources, for the proper person. That's all I do. I give people a roadmap from point A to point B of how to do that. And that's what I do. That's what Balanced Protocol is. It's a framework to navigate, and you can have the trip of your life. That's the cool thing about it. That's what I help people do. All these things are great in place. I think that type of spring water, there's a fantastic spring water, but I don't want to pay 5 to $10 a bottle for it.

I have a system in my house that I make it myself. Anybody can do it for less than about $400.

Wow. That's it. Because these reverse osmosis systems are like 10 grand.

Some of them are crazy. You can go to my TikTok app balance protocol, and you can go to my list, my Amazon store. There it is. I love it. You can go there and build your own I have an inline remineralizer, and then I have, of course, an entire course on water and how to make all your own. Like, Lily, I can... I deformulated that water, and I can show you how to make it on your own.

Wow, that's cool, man.

Add some fuzz to it if you want. I'm a big educator on it. I hope this translates to the audience. I might be a little bit out there in some things, but the message is I want people to be happy, to get their mental health together and to stop being scared by all these things. I really appreciate you letting Let me just let it all out. But the thing is, all these content creators, they all start with, Stop doing this. Oh my God, watch over this. Now they got another. It fear sells. I'm very boring. Mine is like, Hey, guys, let me show you how to do it. You got to get a hook on your TikTok. I'm going, That's not me. I'm a clinician.

I'll get you there.

I'll take any type of tool as I want that you'll get. I want it all as well as I'm going to say. It's one of those things where it's everyday people, man. You know the people that are at these conferences They're loaded. They're loaded. They have this, and this is their country club. This is what they do. Okay? But for everybody else of all ages and demographics, and I've got patients from countries all over the world, I can help them with information and guidance. That's what I do, is I'm a consultant, okay? And I'll show you you and how to find out more about you and help guide you on what you want to do, not tell you you have to do this.

Yeah.

No scaring stuff. I'm a teacher.

We'll link your stuff below, man. Next time you see this guy, he will be debating a urine therapist. Thanks for coming on, man.

Fantastic. Thanks for having me.

Awesome. See you guys next.