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Podcast Notes: Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley - Episode: Peptides Unleashed: The Ultimate Health Hack with Jay Campbell
Episode Overview In this episode, Ryan Hanley hosts Jay Campbell, a renowned expert on hormonal optimization, therapeutic peptides, and overall human performance. They discuss the critical role hormones play in health, with a focus on optimizing testosterone levels for enhanced energy, mental clarity, and overall well-being. The conversation also touches on modern health challenges, misinformation, and the need for individuals to take ownership of their health.
Key Guests
- Jay Campbell: 5x international best-selling author, men's physique champion, co-founder of BioLongevity Labs.
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Major Themes and Concepts
- Importance of Hormonal Optimization
- Hormones impact energy levels, focus, and performance.
- Campbell argues that optimizing testosterone is crucial for transitioning from merely surviving to thriving.
- Statistics: Approximately 80% of adults over 35 in the West experience hormonal deficiencies (not limited to men).
- Health vs. Sick Care
- Modern medical practices often fail to address hormonal imbalances; patients frequently receive prescriptions for SSRIs or ED medications instead of proper hormone treatment.
- The hosts emphasize the importance of understanding and addressing the root causes of health issues instead of relying on pharmaceutical "quick fixes."
- Personal Health Journeys
- Ryan shares his struggles with hormonal deficiency, revealing his testosterone level was in the 7th percentile before treatment.
- He describes how treatment with Enclomiphene and morelin restored his energy and performance.
- Misconceptions about Health
- There's a common belief that hormonal deficiencies and related health problems are natural and unchangeable.
- Both Ryan and Jay underline the idea that many people live in a default state of suffering due to hormonal imbalances and misinformation.
- Lifestyle Changes for Improved Health
- The conversation emphasizes the significance of healthy habits, including diet and exercise, in managing hormonal health.
- The dangers associated with fad diets and the importance of balanced nutrition (including carbohydrates, proteins, and fats) are highlighted.
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Key Takeaways
- Understanding Hormonal Deficiency: It's essential to recognize and address hormonal imbalances rather than accept them as normal.
- Cautious Health Optimization: Approach health optimizations with caution; not all methods or treatments are appropriate for everyone.
- Healthy Habits Matter: Regular exercise and balanced nutrition are crucial for maintaining overall health and hormonal balance.
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Sound Bites
- Ryan Hanley: "Most people's default state in America today is suffering."
- Jay Campbell: "If you have high levels of triglyceride, that’s bad, and you’re at a seriously high-risk level, but guess what? That’s completely changeable."
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Chapters Summary
- 00:00 - Introduction to the episode
- 07:47 - Discussion on hormonal treatment over pharmaceutical drugs
- 14:21 - Encourage health optimization over sick care
- 19:58 - Biomarkers, metabolism, and balanced health
- 23:44 - Low testosterone: Symptoms and misconceptions
- 29:59 - Lifestyle changes to lower heart risks
- 35:14 - Exploring the effects of Wegovy (GLP-1 agonist)
- 37:50 - Discussing the high cost of diabetes medication
- 45:39 - The impact of substance use on performance
- 47:45 - Caution against daily substance use
- 54:34 - Insights on Ayahuasca and nicotine myths
- 58:40 - Dangers of overusing cognitive enhancers
- 01:03:33 - Closing remarks and resources
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Additional Resources
- Website: [BioLongevity Labs](https://biolongevitylabs.com)
- Instagram: [Jay Campbell](https://www.instagram.com/jaycampbell333/)
- Ryan Hanley’s Website: [Ryan Hanley](https://go.ryanhanley.com/)
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This episode effectively highlights the significance of understanding and optimizing hormonal health while urging listeners to take proactive measures in their health journeys. The insights shared by both Ryan and Jay aim to empower individuals to move away from a reactive sick care model towards a proactive health optimization approach.
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Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00AI agents are everywhere, automating tasks and making decisions at machine speed. But agents make mistakes. Just one rogue agent can do big damage before you even notice. Rubrik Agent Cloud is the only platform that helps you monitor agents, set guardrails, and rewind mistakes. So you can unleash agents, not risk. Accelerate your AI transformation at rubrik.com. That's R-U-B-R-I-K dot com. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the show. We have a tremendous conversation for you today with Jay Campbell, five-time international best-selling author, men's physique champion, and co-founder of BioLongevity Labs.
0:45He is widely held as a foremost expert in hormonal optimization, therapeutic peptides, and overall human performance. If you believe, as I do, that your physical fitness is a competitive advantage, not just in the activities we do, but in business and in life, lock in. This is a no-holds-barred, in-your-face episode that is going to give you some tactical guidance, particularly for men who are aging, who are looking to maintain their performance, their strength, their mental clarity into the second half of their life. Lock in on this episode because you are going to get everything you need to dial in your physical performance.
1:29With that, I'm incredibly excited to share with you Jay Campbell.
1:43In a crude laboratory in the basement of his home.
2:02Jay, as someone who's been saying on this podcast for five years now that health is a competitive advantage in every aspect of our life, including business, I can't be more excited to have the conversation we're about to have today. Thank you, my brother. It's an honor and a privilege to be here, and I can't wait to go deep down the rabbit hole with you. Yeah, so I want to start on a very personal note. Some of the listeners of the show may have heard me talk about this in the past, but for those who haven't, I'll just hit it real quick. Last January, so I live in the north, live in Albany, New York, and used to the winters, used to the normal kind of decline that you feel when you haven't seen the sun for, you know, 100 days and all that kind of stuff, you know, and have developed ways of getting through that.
2:42But last January, it was like I ran into a brick wall. It was like I'm 43 years old at the time, and it's like it was as if there was nothing there. There was nothing to pull from. You know what I mean? It's like normally, you know, you have a good day, you have a bad day, whatever. But like there was just – I had zero. And I couldn't figure out what it was. And I heard, I think, a Tia or Human on one of the podcasts talking about testosterone and different markers. So I got tested and my testosterone was 70, which put me in the 7th percentile according to that company or whatever of all men. And I got on an oral kind of, I have the name.
3:26I took a picture of it so I could share it with you here. The name of it is Enclomiphene. Enclomiphene. Enclomiphene, yep. So just under the tongue oral. I wasn't taking shots or whatever. and that helped a lot. And then my doctor also put me on some morelin as well. And the combination of those two things brought my numbers way back. Depending on, I've gotten tested a couple of times. I'm usually between like 750 and 900 in terms of testosterone now and feel, I mean, just different world in terms of how I feel in my energy, but also brain activity, my ability to focus like all these things came back uh in waves and i have been trying to get as many people as i can like yourself who spent this is what they do this is our life's work is helping people optimize their health to talk about these topics because as you said and i would love for you to share this stat again most people just go through life and feel like this is the way i'm supposed to feel like they just don't understand what is possible if they dig a little deeper Yeah.
4:41I mean, you know, what you experienced is actually commonality now in the West. I tell people all the time that 80%, and that's a strong statement, but I mean, I can correlate it and, you know, people can fact check me just by my business model, by what I do, who I interact with in the world. 80 % of society that is in the West that is an adult over the age of 35 has a hormonal deficiency. It's not just men, it's men and women. The biggest problem, Brian, is that we don't have a lot of physicians that understand how to handle the situation. The average doctor, general practitioner, you know, PPO, HMO, insurance doctor has no understanding of therapeutic hormones or the endocrine system from medical school.
5:24And again, this is all purposeful. We could go down the, the serious rabbit hole and talk about why they don't understand anything about hormone optimization if we really want to. But to continue on this path is once somebody gets to 35 or 40 in the West today, they're dealing with a massive onslaught of phytoestrogens, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, plastics, neurotoxins, thylate, BPA, atrazine, glyphosate, you name it. I could talk for an hour about all the things that are attacking us biologically. And so once that happens, regardless of whether you were a former pro athlete or a flaming dumpster fire of obesity and insulin resistance, you have most likely a hormonal deficiency.
6:11And when you go to the doctor, if you go to the doctor, because a lot of people, like you said, just sit and suffer. Most people's default state in America today because of this poisoned environment that we in his suffering, right? They don't even know how to not suffer. But if they're lucky enough to go to a doctor or the wife pushes them to go to a doctor or, you know, they're like you, they figure something's going on and they go to a doctor, it's unlikely the doctor can even diagnose the problem because they don't understand anything about hormones. In fact, what doctors normally do is they write you a script for an SSRI, which is obviously an antidepressant because your mood is altered.
6:46You're depressed, you have low energy. And then they also will address the erectile issue because usually you have sexual dysfunction, right? So you can't get a good erection. So they'll give you a blue or pink pill, Viagra, Levitra, Cialis, whatever, there's other ones now. And so you're never addressing the fundamental root cause, which is a hormonal deficiency. And what ends up happening is when you're taking an SSRI, and also what are called PP5 inhibitors, which are Levitra, Cialis, and Viagra, over time, your hormonal deficiency becomes worse because SSRIs change brain programming and actually lower your hormones even worse and make it worse.
7:28And then the sexual dysfunction even gets worse because if you're taking a higher dosage of all those inhibitor drugs, you eventually develop like a desensitization. So you're, you know, you don't get the erection quality or strength. They actually kind of stop working as you titrate the dosage up higher. So we are just like in this morass, you know, in this like dysfunctional society where people are not being treated in the right way. And, you know, I could go down the path. Obviously, I've written many books on it. But like if you treat someone's hormones initially versus giving them those other big pharma drugs and again, you do it right, which is also a big question, you will actually eliminate most of the issues that are being faced in society today from a disease state.
8:12And I mean, type two diabetes, heart disease, you know, type three diabetes, which is really neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer's, dementia, autoimmune disease. All of these things stem from a hormonal dysregulation. The hormonal dysregulation causes inflammation and insulin resistance, and then obviously obesity and metabolic disease and disorder. And so you have this, again, society of people who are sick, fat and depressed, and they're not getting the hormonal treatment necessary to make them feel better, which you did. And again, you're lucky. You're one of the lucky few because most guys don't, you know, most guys, if they're lucky enough to have a wife to say, you're not right, you know, what's going on.
8:54Um, you know, they push them down, like they go to the GNC and they buy like the over the counter bullshit testosterone boosters that don't do anything. So thankfully you did see a doctor and they did give you in clomiphene, which is a, you know, FSH follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone analog, which will help, you know, increase certain things to increase your endogenous, which is your natural testosterone production. You also took a growth hormone agonist peptide like surmoralin, which helped. But again, most people, Ryan, don't get this kind of help and it just becomes worse and worse and worse.
9:26And again, walk around in America today, go to an airport, go to a stadium, go to an event with a lot of people. And all you see is default suffering, Fat, inflamed, sick, and depressed. That is the average default person in America today. Jay, here's the scary part. Everything I take today, I have had to piece together. Your comments, I'm my general practitioner. So my general practitioner is a perfectly fine human being. For lack of a better term. But essentially, I don't even know why I go to her. You know what I mean? And I mean that with all due respect to her, but like, like, you know, if I go, I get my own blood work.
10:12I, you know, so I pay for these. So I've essentially had to, and again, this is the scary part is like, I have had to piece these things together by listening to people like yourself, reading tons of articles, researching companies online, talk, you know what I mean? Like, like this is only because I am this psychotic neurodivergent. Once I have a bone, I can't let it go type of human. That's the only reason I've gone down this path. Like the amount of work and I, and I don't know shit. And I'm fully aware of that with the amount of work I've done to still feel like, I don't know. That's the scary part.
10:48And it's why to your point. And, and, you know, I talk about this with some of my friends, like, you know, so my kids play baseball and I coach and I love it and whatever. It's all good. I look around and my kids and I are very into being fit you know whatever and freaking everybody's got a dad bod everybody my son said to me the other day and he wasn't being a jerk right he's just aware and noticing and he said dad you're the only one here without a dad bod out of all the parents all the fans all the coaches all the parents the entire place I was the only one that didn't have a gut sticking out of the front of my shirt And I don't mean that to be so negative for those of you who are listening who may have that going on.
11:31But my point in having individuals like yourself in these conversations is that shouldn't be acceptable. Like, not just because of the look. I don't mean it that way. It's not a judgmental on the look. It's the reason you wake up feeling hungover, even though you didn't have a drink the night before, is because of what you're seeing in your midsection. Dude, 100%. I mean, look, like I told you, I'm in Mexico right now. I just did a big retreat in Tulum with a bunch of other influencer, biohacker influencers. And, you know, the people that we attracted were not that type of person, but like, I just go down to the pool of my hotel here in Playa del Carmen.
12:08And like, when I take my shirt off and, you know, I'm super fit dude, obviously, but like people look at me like I'm an alien, you know what I'm saying? So it's like, as you know, cause you're just 10 years younger than me, I'm 54. It used to be the other way around, right? Like people would look at people like us and be like, damn, man, impressive, great job. How do you do, you know, what do you do? Do you train? Do you, you know, how do you eat? Blah, blah, blah. They would ask you questions, general questions about like, wow, you know, and now it's the opposite, right? Because now fit people are completely the neurodivergent mutants.
12:40And so it's truly bizarre. We've really changed the world again. And again, the reason this is there's no, it's no confusion. We live in a toxic society. the food is toxic the water is toxic the air that we breathe is toxic all the chemicals in our modern society are toxic you get in your car whether it's a tesla or a bmw m5 whatever it is and the petroleum distillate in your car has fumes that come out when the sun hits it through the windshield that's sickening you right the the blue light from your nav screen or your flat screen or the tesla is irradiating your optic nerve it's generating all sorts of bad stuff for your biological system.
13:21So the modernization of today cannot be avoided. We can't go into the forest and live like a monk a thousand years ago. Those days are over. I mean, you can, right? You want to move to the aboriginal outback of Australia, which I was just in Australia like three weeks ago and saw some crazy stuff. But I mean, it's not relative to most people in modern day society. So the only thing you can do, Ryan, is do what you do. And truthfully, I'll give you credit because you're actually not dumb. I mean, you actually know more than 90 % of doctors already. And look, we're not going to disparage doctors.
13:55Doctors go to medical school, they get brainwashed, they have to regurgitate all this nonsense. I mean, dude, I mean, I don't want to go rabbit hole, but like think about with AI and how AI is infecting the world now. I mean, imagine where education is going because bro, people don't even think we can talk about that in a second, but people under the age of 30 now, Ryan, literally don't even think they use AI to respond. You probably get emails right now back from people who are responding with AI. It's all so insane. But back to the doctor conversation, your doctor, you shouldn't go to. I say this all the time.
14:29Unless you're bleeding out, gut shot, you've been in a serious accident, you have shrapnel that is stuck out of your body. Doctors in the allopathic, quote unquote, sick care, you know, illness medicine world should not be gone to because if you went to your doctor right now and say, hey, doc, I want to live to 150. Tell me what to do. They would literally look at you dumbfounded. They'd be like, what are you talking about? Are you sick? Open up your tongue and stay out. You know what I'm saying? We now live in a world where you have two choices. You can literally be about health optimization, which is obviously the point of this podcast, which is what you did when you optimized your testosterone and went down this rabbit hole.
15:08Or you can just be that quote unquote boomer who is literally says, oh, well, my copayment is this and this is what I can afford. And this is what my doctor does for me. And those people do nothing for you other than write you scripts and tell you you have sickness, tell you you have a disease or a diagnosis. And then these people, again, internalize their diagnosis. So we're in a place in time now and I call it a golden age, but you have to be the, you know, the individual arbiter of what your truth is. and if your truth is like dude i'd get my own labs done you know i have a doctor that's optimizing my hormones maybe it's a functional medicine doctor maybe it's jay campbell or somebody else on the internet but i get my own labs which i can do obviously by myself like buying something on amazon you know i listen to jay campbell's podcast or i listen to so and so you know andrew huberman ben greenfield marxist and and i i know how to actually read my own labs because it's simple, right?
16:04Like you get your labs back and you're like, Oh fuck, what's this? But as soon as you watch one video and somebody says, this is what you need to look for. These are the numbers. It's simple, right? So we're in a place because of technology, because of the internet, because of information being ubiquitous, that we can do it all ourselves, bro. So I would say to you about your doctor, you don't need it. You don't need it. I'm going to tell, I'm going to give you a crazy, let me tell you a crazy story. I mean, probably not crazy to you, but maybe some of the people can relate at home and maybe open their eyes to what you just said.
16:31Right. So, so, So something we talk about in other aspects of our life is like, like no one cares more about your health than you do. Right. Your doctor, as much as they don't want you to be sick, they don't care that you're healthy as much as you care about being healthy. Yet we'll completely outsource everything. OK, so so with that thought in mind. Right. I had this doctor for when I essentially since I got done with college, I got referred to her. She was awesome. And she actually was a little was more of an old school. She would work with. What are you trying to do? Where are you trying to go?
17:04How do you? OK. And when I would go in for a physical, she would touch every part of my body. Yep. Every part. Right. It would be a full inspection. OK. So she retired three years ago and I got the doctor that I have today was part of her practice. whatever i go in the first time this is this is three years ago i go in i sit down uh pee in the cup take the blood pressure sitting there i'm ready for my body scan right i'm ready for her to poke and prod and pull and push no time no comes in sits down says here's your how do you feel i said i feel fine she hands me a slip to go get blood work and she says great well i'll call you if there's anything wrong exactly that's how it was the whole thing and i said and i like i'm I'm like, well, aren't you going to do an exam?
17:51She goes, oh, no, everything just comes out in your blood work. And I was like, well, if that's true, then why do I need you? Because I can get prescriptions online from doctors. I can get my blood work online. I can get more detailed panels. She wasn't ordering my testosterone. I'm a guy. She doesn't even know how to read your testosterone. Why don't you order it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, so one of the things that you said before the show as well, that I would love to like, just get a little tactical is like, maybe break down those testosterone. Like what are the difference between the different testosterone numbers that we see and what should we care about when we're looking at these charts ourselves?
18:31Yeah, it's a good question. And let's even go back and go deeper meta. So there's a bunch of companies online right now, private MD labs, discounted labs, direct labs. There's other ones. I'm not, I'm not talking about that any man or woman can go directly to and with no knowledge whatsoever, but a checking card or a credit card, you know, or a wire transfer or a cash app can order a comprehensive lab for their age and their sex. Right. And those comprehensive panels are going to measure everything. Inflammatory markers, endocrine function, which is your testosterone, your estrogen, your progesterone, which estrogen and progesterone are really important in women, a little bit, almost equal to testosterone.
19:15And then estrogen and testosterone in men are a little bit more important than progesterone is in women. But thyroid markers, obviously your metabolics, your CBC, like, you know, your, um, your liver panel, your kidney panel, all of these things are so simple that you can measure. Right. So at that point you, then you, whatever one you pick, There's also coupons. I mean, I have a deal with private MD labs. You can get 15 % off. And I even also set it up so that if you're broke as fuck, you know, you can do a basic evaluation. If you have money, you can get an intermediate. And if you're like super down the rabbit hole and you're like, I want to know everything about myself and I want to know my DNA and I want to know my, you know, food sensitivities, you just spent 1500 bucks and you can understand 90 different biomarkers, right?
19:58So it's up to you where you want to go and how deep you want to go. But bro, it. You just said it. And I'll get the free testosterone and total testosterone in a second. But once you understand how to read these biomarkers, now there's a big component of, okay, understanding is great. Are you also taking care of yourself, which we can get to, which is, are you exercising daily? Are you doing a combination of obviously resistance training, which is weightlifting or some sort of bone bearing training versus cardiovascular training? And then are you what I call living insulin controlled, which is essentially regulating your carbohydrate consumption around your activity level.
20:33There's too many people out there that are afraid of carbohydrates and they go down the whole carnivore, keto, if it's your macros, Atkins, zone, when really it's all about metabolic flexibility. So you got to eat everything, carbs, protein, and fat, you know, regularly over your course of your life, or you retard different biological systems when you don't do that. So all these people that focus on carnivore and keto are really, that were going down rabbit holes they don't want to do, because when you don't eat carbs for a long time, your insulin metabolism becomes retarded, literally. I mean, it stops working functionally and you end up having all these problems.
21:05But without rabbit holing, insulin controlled, lifting weights, doing cardiovascular and understanding your biomarkers, and you don't need to go to the doctor. Again, unless you have an emergency, unless you've been impaled, shot, you know, in a car accident and somebody needs to surgically sew you up or take shrapnel or gun bullets to whatever it is out of your body, you truly don't need to go. And people have to start understanding that you already said it. No one is coming to save you. You are the personal and proactive scientists of your own health, but only if you choose to be. And again, by getting these lab tests and learning how to evaluate them yourself, which will not take a lot of effort, you can do it.
21:45Now, the difference between, to your original question, free testosterone and total testosterone. And again, bro, I'm not joking when I tell you this. 98 % of physicians do not understand this. They do not learn this. Why would big pharma want them to understand hormones when not understanding hormones is how they make money, right? Because when people are not hormonally optimized as they age, they break down. They get disease, inflammation, all the various diseases of aging. You get heart disease, diabetes, glaucoma, you know, gout, All this shit that people get from being inflamed and fat and not exercising and not living insulin controlled is what leads to it.
22:25So they don't want people hormonally optimized because if you're hormonally optimized, you're not going to get sick. But free testosterone and total testosterone, this is a huge thing for the dudes on this podcast and in your audience to understand the differentiation. Total testosterone is the number that most people see, and it's the measure of what is called bound testosterone in the bloodstream. bound testosterone in the bloodstream is completely useless because it's not biologically active. So free testosterone is what we call biologically active testosterone or unbound. That's the number that you want to concern yourself with because that's what's usable in your body, right?
23:06So there's a lot of people out there that will have like a middle to high normal. And again, I don't know what normal means, but that's what they say in the lab reading community, total level and low free and their doctor will be like, oh, you're fine because your total is above the range. But you're actually the opposite of that because with low circulating free numbers or testosterone numbers, you have no usable testosterone in your body. So essentially you're walking around damaged goods, depressed, horrible mood, low energy, no erectile strength, poor sleep. Another thing, dude, so many guys think that, and cause they always say this to me, right?
23:46They think that having low testosterone means they can't get it up or have sex with their woman. And that's the total opposite, right? Like a lot of guys with super low testosterone can get great erections and can still have regular sex and ejaculate and reach climax. And it has absolutely nothing to do with low testosterone. So if you're a man and you're watching this show right now and you have brain fog, it's like 99.9 % that you have low testosterone. If you have belly fat, you know, and brain fog and, you know, an inability to sleep well at night, it's 99.9 % that you have low testosterone because bro, you said it earlier, belly fat creates insulin resistance and cytokines in the stomach and the stomach hangs right over the penis, right?
24:30So where the penis is and all of that, you know, endocrine functional glands, the gonads, the testes, all that stuff down there. If you've got this massive insulin resistant visceral fat hanging above your dick, why would you think your dick would work? Right. So like these guys don't understand because I see guys all the time in the middle ages and they're like fit everywhere else, but they have a slight belly and it's like hanging. And I'm like, and they can't get an erection. I'm like, dude, you got to get rid of the belly. Right. So it's like the bottom line is, is understand what the difference is between free and total.
25:03And if you have free testosterone, again, you know, just to give you a garden variety range, like less than 15, you have low testosterone and getting on therapeutic testosterone. We can go down that path and talk about the various delivery systems, you know, clomiphene, HCG. I mean, I like therapeutic testosterone and clomiphene or therapeutic testosterone and HCG because nothing will restore dopamine signaling in the brain better than therapeutic testosterone. In clomiphene in isolation, like you did, will increase numbers and increase FSH and increase LH, which will make you fertile. But a lot of guys, you're one of the lucky few.
25:41A lot of guys don't feel the brain improvement. They don't feel the light, oh, the light came on improvement. So usually therapeutic testosterone, and there's a lot of different delivery systems we can talk about, combined with what you were doing or combined with HCG or HMG, uh, again, improving L FSH and LH. So you remain fertile is usually the best path to go. But yeah, dude, I mean, it's like, again, look around. I mean, almost every guy that you see with a dad bod, that is the result of low testosterone. They do not have masculine fire. It's gone. Yeah. Yeah, no, I, it's funny. I, I, uh, I have people cause, cause again, and talking, going back to the coaching part, um, you know, I'm all over the place.
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26:25I love it. You know what I mean? It's just, I feel like I get to be a kid again and run around, you know, my son's 11. So it's just tons of fun. And, you know, we have all, and I'll have people, I'll have people come up to me and they'll be like, how do you have the energy for this? And I'm like, this is like, are you talking about it? This is great. You know what I mean? I love this shit. And it's just a different world. And I want to give you an example of, and just for, again, for, for everybody at home. And I'm sure you've had these conversations with your doctors, like, I have high cholesterol.
26:53I've had high cholesterol my entire life. Since I was eight years old, I've had high cholesterol. It's just genetic. Yeah, genetic. It's just genetic high cholesterol. Okay. No matter what I do, I've never been able to get it below 190. And I'm usually between 200 and 300 at any given time. Okay. So my doctor's like, you know, if you have another high cholesterol test, you know, we want to put you on Lipitor and all this kind of stuff. And I didn't want to do that. And I said, okay. I said, but I said, I did some research and I found, what I found out is one, because it's genetic, it's has less of an impact on my body.
27:26I said, two, if I, if I have zero plaque, then there's no issue with me having cholesterol between two and 300. So, so she goes, well, I guess I can order you a plaque test. I go, yeah, that's what I want you to do. So I go get the plaque test. The plaque test is zero. And she comes back and she goes, well, I guess you don't need the Lipitor. And I said, you know, I think how many people, by the way, do not. Dude, this is this is the part that scares the shit out of me is like she had no problem just going. Here's Lipitor. Here you go. No, didn't even go. Here's the side effects. Here's what just here's Lipitor.
28:00Have a nice day. Go. And it's like, I don't even actually have a problem. Like the sec, if you would just go on one level deeper, I actually don't have a problem. Bro, that's 95 % of men. And again, you and me are different than most men. Let's just be honest. Right now, we're 10 % left of society. 10 % is like us now. That's how bad it really is. And to go deeper with that doctor, and again, to not disparage doctors, because bro, I always say this, right? They're just products of a bad system. They got to pay their bills. They got to write their mortgages. They got to pay for their kids' college tuitions.
28:35I mean, everything that we face in our matrix of life in third density reality, they got to deal with the same shit and they're only going to do what they can do to maximize their income. For her to say to you, you know, take Lipitor or Atrovin or whatever, you know, a statin drug, she makes 450 bucks. Like every time they write a script, that statin company or that statin lobby reimburses them a flat chunk. You know, that's why the best cardiologists from an income standpoint have every single patient on a cholesterol lowering medication. And I want to go deeper down the rabbit hole because I don't get a chance to talk about this a lot, but cholesterol is an absolute, and you, you set me up perfect.
29:19Cholesterol is a completely and totally meaningless data point. Here's why. In the absence of plaque, and we're going to go deeper on that in a second, it means nothing, right? The only thing that means something in the cholesterol evaluation, and again, we're talking about lipid particles in the body, okay? Fat dobles between HDL and LDL, high density lipoprotein versus low density is triglycerides. Triglycerides are a measure of the bad fat that is emulsified in your visceral body fat store. So the more body fat, again, visceral body fat, which is the kind that sits around your organs, which is the really unhealthy fat, will lead to the higher levels of triglyceride.
30:07If you have high levels of triglyceride, that's bad and you're at a seriously high risk level. But guess what, bro? That's completely changeable. You can get on a diet, change your lifestyle, lose body fat, lose your levels of inflammation. And I've seen guys, no exaggeration, bro, with 500 triglyceride levels down to 50 in four months. So it's completely lifestyle dependent. You can change all this. But to your point, I've seen Greek people who have 600 levels of cholesterol naturally because genetic, right? They don't have any issue whatsoever because they're active. They're not fat. They're not inflamed.
30:47Now back to the plaque, because this is also important. And a lot of people miss this and 90 % of cardiovascular doctors miss this. If you don't have any plaque and you're healthy, what is the risk, right? Even if you do have plaque, and this is what blows people away. If you are fit and you have genetic levels of plaque, then how's that going to affect you, right? Because you have to be unfit and make a sudden movement, which is again, average American or average person in the West who's obese and doesn't exercise to have that plaque break off and block, you know, an artery or block an arterial vein or something to give you a, you know, either a blood clot, which is deep, a deep vein thrombosis or a heart attack.
31:31So like I always tell people like this whole like observing plaque, observing APO or APOB and all our lipoprotein particle sizes is just a big scam for cardiovascular doctors and of course prescribing statins to make money because people don't really understand you're right dude like if you go to the doctor and you have a 195 or 200 level of cholesterol it's instantaneous oh i'm gonna put you on the statin yeah and if you don't do any investigation and you're just the average joe or jane and you don't you're not ryan haley or jay campbell you're not gonna go deeper down the rabbit hole and investigate whether you need it you're like okay dog put me on it and then Bro, like you said, it makes you worse.
32:12I've written many articles on statins. Statins are the worst drug. Well, probably next to the COVID vax. It's the worst drug in the history of mankind. It literally lowers testosterone. It causes brain issues. Like it literally screws with dopamine signaling. You become more depressed, lower testosterone, fatter, more inflamed. I mean, they are horrible, horrible drugs. Dude, I don't even know what the percentage of men on statins are over the age of 50. but I bet you it's 60%. Oh yeah. That, that probably even sounds low to me. I bet it's higher than that. Crazy. I mean, the way they give them out like candy at parties, it's not early, dude.
32:48Yeah. Yeah. Um, I want to talk about, um, I want to talk about GLP ones for a minute for sure. Um, because came out super drug. Then the next wave of, of news articles we got was don't leave the height. We're actually killing you. Yeah. And now and now the narrative has kind of from from seemingly the people that are trying to actually help has kind of come back around to. Yep. Well, yeah, there's these benefits to to potentially with weight loss. But now we're looking at things like the reduction in cancer markers, elevated brain functionality. um so so can we let's get into like is is let's say you're optimizing your health uh from the standpoint of not not just trying to lose weight maybe you have a little bit of weight you want to lose whatever but you're not is is a glp1 something i should look at uh to add into my uh mix to to overall optimize my longevity and health dude i love you bro nobody ever asked me questions like this so i just did a huge presentation on glps from one of my speaking engagements for this seminar and i'll just say this like i'm obviously very very pro glp now with that said you have to understand how to do them and you said it exactly right they came out they were all the rage people lost weight and then the sheeple let's just call them the sheeple yeah who are working with the sheeple doctors did everything wrong and me and let me define what everything wrong is they don't eat enough protein.
34:25They don't lift weights. They take way too high of a dose. As I always say in big pharma versus Jay Campbell, the mantra is start high, go higher. In the Jay Campbell world, everything, supplements, peptides, hormones is start low, go slow. It's as low as possible and then go slow and evaluate because you are a unique biochemically individual person and what works for you might not work for Ryan or Jay. You have to start at the lowest titrated doses as possible and then go from there. But again, in big pharma world, they give everybody too much, start high, go higher. And why is that, Ryan? Because that's how they make money.
35:01That's how they line their pockets. That's how the pharmaceutical companies make more money. So to your point, when you do it right, they're the greatest interventions in the history of medicine. And this isn't just my opinion. This is based on the amount of money that Manjaro and Wagovi are making. Last year, Manjaro made$6 billion. Wagovi is higher than that. And I don't know the actual statistic, but I know it's a bigger GLP prescribed. So in the people that do the right things, and again, I'll define it again because people don't do the right things, eat enough protein, lift weights, microdose, literally microdose, which is usually going against the recommendation of the quack doctor that wrote you the script.
35:43And you do this right. And again, you proceed with caution. It's insane. And to your point, it's not just metabolic improvement and weight loss. It's changing and rewiring the brains. People are recovering from complete obsessive compulsive disorders and addictions, porn addictions, alcohol addictions, smoking addictions, neurodivergence. I mean, bro, there are studies coming out now every day that are showing the amazing profound nature of these drugs. But again, as I always say and give Tim Ferris credit, the difference between a pill and a poison is the dosage. And if you're taking too high of a dose and you're not doing any of the things right, which as you know, is the majority of America because they want an easy button and a holy grail, you know, magic bullet for everything.
36:35They don't want to do the work. Then you're going to only end up with side effects. And the negative things that you see in the media about muscle loss and wagovi ass and wagovi chin and wagovi face and wagovi butt and all this stuff is real but none of that stuff has to happen and i've worked with thousands of people who are using glp1s productively their lives are changing i mean i have thousands and thousands of women who write me every single day saying you have no idea like what a what a microdose of terzapatite has done for my life it's eliminated food noise i've lost 30 pounds i've lost 20 pounds.
37:08I've lost 60 pounds. And this was weight that I never got off after my second baby. This is weight that I could never get off after I was 28 years old. You know, so like profound biological and physiological change, not to mention all the amazing things that's going on the brain. But as again, it's a caveat. If you don't do all the other things right when you're taking them, you're going to have issues. And so it's who do you get your information from? You're not going to get good information from a garden variety doctor who writes you a script for Wadobi. It's not going to happen. Yeah, because there's no follow on.
37:42I mean, that's the other part, too. There's no follow on. So, OK, so I'm very interested personally in this idea of micro dosing GLP ones. And and like, how do you go about it? Like, again, then don't don't give away any secret sauce to what you do. No, I will. I'll open book. I'll tell anybody. So I mean, like, so it's such a great question because there's two options. So option one, and this is what most people do, is go to a doctor, get a script. If you're not fat and diabetic, you're getting absolutely anally raped because, as you know, they're charging an arm and a leg for these like one month of dosage of terzapatide, which is a which is a dual stage GLP-1 agonist, which means it suppresses appetite and increases resting metabolic rate by increasing glucogen can be twelve hundred to sixteen hundred dollars for a month.
38:33Right. And in America today, if you're not having your insurance pay for that or having a copayment for that, there are very few families that can pay that. Right. So that's option one. You either have a diet. And then there's obviously some people that get a diabetic doctor to write them a script for type two diabetes. And so they can kind of hack the system. If you have a doctor that you're friends with, there are people doing that. They also do that with Wigovia or semaglutide. That's option one. And so it either comes down to you're hacking the system and you're getting a script from your doctor who gets you a compounded medication or format of that.
39:07Or option two, which is where I kind of come in, my company, BioLongevity Labs, comes in as you buy it from a research company. And if you buy it from a research company, you literally can buy these things for one tenth. And sometimes when there's discounts and sales, they're running one twentieth of the price. So here's the difference, though. If you're buying it from your doctor and it's coming in a compounded format, there's nothing you have to do except inject it, right? Having somebody, either yourself or your mom or your wife or your husband or whatever, or a nurse practitioner that's friends with you or something like that, they inject it.
39:41If you're doing it microdose, you got to do it every other day. You're using a small insulin needle or even a medical grade pen. It's no big deal. if you're coming from the research side you got to understand a how to reconstitute a peptide which is not hard but some people make a big deal out of it because they're like oh my god i got a math you know what i mean like i got to do math i got to understand what a milligram versus a microgram is i got to understand an insulin needle i got to understand reconstitution blah blah blah so they make it a lot harder than it is um but if you do learn that and you take the time and obviously people like me have courses.
40:14I have massive amounts of free information, free videos, all sorts of stuff. My book is online. There's a lot of stuff you can learn, bro. And one day, it's not hard. And thankfully, you know, and I say this not for a financial or personal benefit, but I say thankfully, because people are becoming more empowered, more and more people every day are like, fuck big pharma, fuck my doctor, fuck this outrageous shit fees and stuff. I'm going to buy this myself and I'm going to do, I'm going to research on myself. I'm going to be my own guinea pig and hamster. And they're learning to do it on themselves.
40:47And so my industry right now and my, my vertical is just exploding. Now we need to mention there is a triple stage agonist GLP, which is called retitrutide, which in the research community is like the biggest seller in the world right now. My company sells that bro. That is the most profound drug in the history of mankind. There's nothing like this drug. It's a triple stage agonist, which means it suppresses appetite, increases resting metabolic rate, and also activates brown fat, which means for most of you guys that are familiar with cold plunges and doing that stuff, taking cold showers, that turns on brown fat every single day.
41:26So when you're taking retitrutide in a tiny, tiny microdose, and I'll actually show you my medical grade pen here in a second. Dude, if you take this every other day of your life, you'll be shredded. Not only will you be shredded, you will have incredible focus. You will have no food noise. You will be a different human being. If you have vices like gambling, smoking weed, vaping, drinking too much alcohol, like women drink too much wine socially at night, it will stop you from doing all that stuff. I mean, it literally is a godsend. Every single day I get messages from people all across the world who said, you know, dude, dude, I like you and you're a great marketer and you talk about these things, but I didn't really believe about Red or True Tide, but I've been using it or my wife's been using it and it's a miracle.
42:12Bro, my 16-year-old daughter, who is a beast gymnast, been exercising her whole life, started lifting weights with me and my wife when she was 11. She's very regimented, very disciplined. I mean, obviously she has me and my wife as parents, right? So she's got great leadership and role models, but I put her on Roto-True Tide in the end of January and an absolute like one 50th, one 50th of the recommended weekly dose that a sheeple would take. And dude, when we came back, we were gone a month. We were in Australia, New Zealand. I was like, what the hell happened? I mean, her body morphed. I mean, she's already muscular and fit, but she's got like the genetics where she puts weight on in her hips, her hamstring and her glute high.
42:57And so she was gaining weight down there. Now, granted, I wouldn't recommend most people put their 16 year old daughter on these things, but my daughter is very regimented. She's also in competitive cheer. So she practices every day. She knows how to eat. She knows how to like inject herself. I had to show her how to do it a couple of times a week. She's doing it twice a week. It transformed her body. And dude, and that was in two months. And I've seen thousands of people around the world who have transformed their bodies and transformed their minds, which is to me the most important thing because it's the gateway.
43:29It's like radically making you stop making poor choices. And I'm telling you, it's the greatest drug ever. Now, for the people watching this, they're like, why have we not heard about this? It's not FDA approved. It's an Eli Lilly drug. It's already through stage three trials. But the whole compounding FDA approval process, as you know, Ryan, is so broken. We live in such a golden age now, and the research community are putting things out years in advance of the FDA approving the drugs. There's no risk. I mean, there's no side effects from this drug. Like the only thing you would get from a side effect standpoint is if you were retarded and you took too much and it slammed your metabolism so much that you had to sit on the toilet and have liquid poop.
44:14I mean, that would be and again, you would have to be really dumb if you did something like that. But I mean, dude, I'm telling you, there are no side effects. People actually pay a lot of money to get to liquid poop because of the constipation problems they have. I'm telling you, dude, I've never in my life, I've used pretty much everything. Obviously, I'm an OG biohacker. I've experimented on myself. I've done every drug known to man for the most part. I've never seen anything like retitrutide. It is a game changer. There are already now four stage GLP-1s in the pipeline. And just so people know what that means, like it would be one beyond retitrutide because run of true tide doesn't have an anti-catabolic, which means a muscle builder added to it.
44:57So you can only imagine where we're going with this biochemical parade of things that we have that's from an opportunity standpoint. But dude, we're just in an incredible place right now in the world. And so I love that drug and I think better things are coming. Yeah, sometimes I think about like, what would the world be if it wasn't for podcasts? And I don't mean that to be so trite. I mean, so you think about how many people like you, what you're sharing is information that even a decade ago, we would have zero access to zero, zero access to this information. And not that anyone has to believe you, but I guarantee that someone's mind is starting to go, hmm, man, I have had brain fog.
45:41I have struggled to build muscle mass. I have struggled with energy. I do have that little pouch that I can't get rid of. Right. Like, and I just, I just, it's why I do this show. It's why my show is so diverse. And the guests that I have, you know, all really focused around performance and pushing forward in our lives, but it's cause this is the kind of shit that we can't get access to. So, so I, I want to, you, you mentioned alcohol and marijuana and I have met, especially since we became legal and I live in New York state. And now, you know, it seems like everybody's taking a gummy or smoking a little joint or whatever, right.
46:14drinking a drink and and then mixing that with alcohol and now it used to be like oh i have some fun on the weekends and now it's like this is what i need to wind down at the end of the night so i'd really i'm interested in we've talked so much about things that create positive change in our lives i'm very interested in the reality around alcohol and marijuana and the impact on what we've just discussed so far dude you're amazing in your questions dude you're really good at this. I appreciate these questions. I don't get a chance to talk to really smart people who really ask great questions. I do a lot of podcasts, but you're awesome at this.
46:48I appreciate that. And I'm very unfiltered as you can tell. All of that stuff is absolutely poison. People are now living in a world where they have so much anxiety, again, due to the attack, right? Everywhere they go, they feel like shit. They're depressed. They're not hormonally optimized. They have low energy. So it's like they come home from work and they're already half dead. And so it's like, what am I going to do to make my life not feel? So it's like, I'm taking these gummies, I'm hitting this vape, I'm smoking this weed, I'm drinking the wine because my life fucking sucks. Like I literally am disconnected.
47:29I have no spiritual awareness. I hate my job. I'm not happy in my marriage. My kids don't love me. I don't give them enough time, blah, blah, blah. I mean, come up with whatever. And so people literally make this sad, unconscious. It's not conscious. It's an unconscious choice to literally numb themselves from reality. And bro, I've been saying this forever. I don't care if you do a little bit of recreational weed, take some MDMA with your wife to reconnect and go out or something on a weekend and just, you know, have loving intimacy or something like that. But like every single day adding in weed or smoking vape or, you know, eating gummies or whatever it is.
48:13I mean, people are just lost. Like they truly don't have connection to what is important. And obviously, you know, if we want to go down the spiritual path real quick, like all of us are souls having physical experiences, incarnating in these physical bodies to evolve and to grow and evolving and growing is not disconnecting. It's like I always tell people like the pain is what sharpens us. The contrast of quote unquote things that we label negative is what allows our soul or our spirit to grow and evolve. It's not avoiding the pain, right? And getting high or disconnecting from six glasses of red wine.
48:58And women are doing this nowadays. I mean, most people, bro, are just in suffering. they're in pain they're not hormonally optimized they feel like shit at all times and so the only way out at night is to do all these things and you know i've been saying this for a long time when i saw this coming with this legalization of weed and legalization of like thc and vapes and all these things it was just like a clear indication that whoever controls this realm is just making people dumber. Yeah. You know, we didn't talk about AI, but all of these people that are embracing AI to think for them are becoming dumber.
49:39Yeah. Like I can show you statistics. I mean, I work with a lot of some of the top copywriters in the world and these people are having moral dilemmas now because they're being expected to turn around copy, which used to take them weeks in days, if not hours, because all these people are using AI to replace human thought and human discernment and human critical thinking. And bro, AI does not replace that. We are creating a world of retarded people who are medicated and disconnected. And it's just sad because it's not the way. I mean, I could get on and pontificate this. I'll be honest with you, you're in the right spot because I have so many thoughts on this particular topic.
50:21Enormous. I'm a Christian, enormous believer in God, um, was raised Catholic. Don't love Catholicism, although I still go occasionally. Um, but I have a very distinct, real and consistent relationship with God. And it's one of the reasons that I've always struggled. And this is tangential, but I'll make it brief because I do have, I have two more compounds that I want to ask you about and get your take on. Yeah. I've always struggled with meditation because, Because I do believe meditation works, right? But I feel like people replace a relationship with God with meditation because it feels easier and cleaner.
51:01Because it's, you know, they're, wow, there's some guy in the clouds, which is the most trite way of dismissing having a relationship with God. But the reason I've always struggled with meditation is you're clearing your mind and you're entering this space, but then you're not filling it. And if you are filling it, you're filling it with your own, with you, and in a very selfish manner. And I've found and try to practice the idea that when you meditate, if you can then fill that space, if you meditate, it was just really just prayer. You can fill that space with God. And all of a sudden you feel this sense of connection, even if you're alone.
51:35And that really what I think everything, this, this, this sense of unhappy of anxiety of stress that you just, that you just described is low at its core. It's loneliness. it's it's it's this empty it's why it's it's why you have educated humans arguing that men can be women like when you see that you're like where could where could that thought come from right like and nothing against the trans community nothing against i have no problem with that i i like my belief as an american is you get to do your shit i get to do my shit as long as you don't put your shit on me and i don't put it on you we're all good right okay there are only two sexes Ryan.
52:15Yeah, but there's only two sex. I just I don't understand how we can how this is even a fucking discussion. I just don't get it. Like, dude, you want it? So one of my best friends growing up, his brother was we called them cross dressers back in the day. Yeah, but he was the number one cross dressing dancer in New York City. He was a fucking celebrity. He was. So he would come up to Albany where I live, which is two and a half hours north of the city. Yep. And he would do these shows and we would go and they were fucking incredible and no one messed with us and it was fun and everyone's laughing there's gay dudes and dudes dressed like chicks and it was all good right and but they weren't none of them thought they were women right exactly it was just like i don't understand where we're at but that mental illness is a different thing um i i want i want to come back to um two two specific compounds you can take them whichever water and spend as much time as you want, but I'm very interested in nicotine and particularly the pouch delivery system, right?
53:16And psilocybin. I'm interested in those two compounds and where they fall, valuable, not valuable, use cases, et cetera. So I used psilocybin yesterday. So you know that there's value in psilocybin. I don't use psilocybin regularly. I use it for ceremonial, sacred ceremonial type things. like again i was here in a really awesome it ended yesterday but i was here in a five-day retreat with a bunch of different people from all over the world uh and at the end we did a sacred ceremony of five meo dmt you know for people that wanted to partake it was not forced uh and then uh a chocolate mushrooms and we went into the cenotes so we were literally connected to the jungle and i mean yeah so amazing powerful and so spiritual and i mean talk about meeting god but um so i love both of these products and I have spoken.
54:07Did you actually hear my stuff about nicotine? Is that? Well, I didn't know. I'll be honest with you. I went very, this is God connect you and me in this conversation because I'm a huge nicotine proponent. I've written deeply about nicotine. So when I say this, a lot of people get really upset because they don't really understand what's going on because they've been brainwashed. But the fear of nicotine and the addictive nature of nicotine is actually all fabricated. And let me explain what I mean by that. Nicotine has been used in shamanic circles for hundreds of thousands of years. In fact, in the Amazon rainforest in Peru, various other parts of Latin America, the ayahuasca, which are the people that provide ayahuasca in ceremony to the indigenous, to the cultures, the groups and stuff like that.
54:59And now the ones that even train American people to become shamans, have been using it for thousands of years. In America, this addictive nature of nicotine became known and it is real because the cigarette companies, the alcohol and tobacco lobby, put all these chemical messengers and highly addictive substances inside cigarettes, tobacco pouches and wads and all that stuff in the last 40 years. And it's that is what people are addicted to. It's not actually nicotine itself because nicotine as a drug, a biologically classified drug, the alphaloid nicotogenic receptors in our body actually do amazing things.
55:48And the reason the Iowa he's crows take it is because it's a very powerful nootropic have you ever had i'm sorry to interrupt you have you ever had nicotine mixed with mom bay yes i have yes yes that's one of my first so i'm hyper i'm hyperactive bipolar okay and i found that um um i found that mixing mom bay with nicotine yeah is like incredible you talk about like dialed in focus without any of the uh caffeine yeah no big jittery no i mean Don't say the androinergic stimulation. I didn't mean to interrupt you. I just. You're good. It's good. I actually have a supplement that we just launched like two weeks ago that I'll have to send you.
56:30It's called BioMind. And it's the strongest, by far the strongest, like over the counter oral nootropic on planet Earth. And it has dihexa, which is obviously a peptide. It has J47, which is something like what you just talked about. And then it also has new pept in it. And it's just, I mean, for someone like you, like you said, based on your clinical diagnosis, this thing will be amazing for you. But anyway, but getting back to nicotine, it's been vilified, abhorred. All these people think that they have addictions to nicotine when it's the chemicals. It's the chemical messengers. You know, again, it's the denatured versions of it.
57:08So as long as you get pure form of nicotine and you don't take, again, difference between a pill and a poison is the dosage massive amounts you're not going to notice any kind of like oh my god i gotta do it 12 times a day now again there are people out there that are addicted to these substances and it's because they started with cigarettes or chew or pouches which again have the same chemical additives into it and they were at massive high dosages of that and they never weaned themselves off of it but if you just use it like you do it you know again recreationally to stimulate from a nootropic standpoint to improve mood, improve focus.
57:47They're amazing. Now, psilocybin, there's a big issue with psilocybin abuse. There's way too many people that microdose every day, bro. There's all these companies out there that are giving gummies, lozenges, you know, pills, all this shit. I've seen it all. Half of them want me to promote for them and i'm laughing all the time because like if you've ever met somebody who's microdosing every day you start realizing that they're not all there you know what i mean like they have loops and lapses in their prefrontal low prefrontal cortex because they've been abusing psilocybin and look here's what i'll say any of these drugs regardless whether psilocybin mdma the toad ayahuasca ibogaine i mean you name it and theogens and then obviously synthesized big pharma drugs like adderall uh crystal meth fentramine any of these things if you take it in too high of a dosage for too long of a time you're gonna have problems what goes up must come down you cannot hack you cannot beat different receptors in your brain by doing this drug and then doing this drug and like and I see all these people in the biohacking industry saying, oh, dude, I only need four hours a day of sleep because I can do this.
59:09And then I can take a half of modafinil or whatever. I mean, again, every single one of those drugs that are classified as nootropics and theogens, whatever, all work and stimulate the same receptors in the brain. Okay. And if you overstimulate them, you oversaturate them, you're going to have problems. So to me, it's always moderation. I think a psilocybin again with a loved a loved one you know in an initiatory thing where you're with a bunch of men and you're it's a camaraderie thing you know you're in a jungle you know you're connected everybody's energy field is connected I think those things are very sacred very powerful there's a lot of benefit to those things but again you can't do them very often I think nicotine my wife chews one milligram nicotine gum, you know, whenever she needs like a pickup, you know, in the afternoon, sometimes again, if you keep your dosages light and you don't become physically or physiologically like adapted to her, like I have to have it three times a day.
1:00:08There's no harm in those things, but psilocybin, I see, you know, we should probably expand because I see a lot of people now also becoming addicted to ketamine, you know, ketamine in this like, you know, super micro dosages bros i mean i see all these people promoting this and yes ketamine is therapeutic and healing just like mdma is for people that have ptsd or post-traumatic you know stress disorder or actually brain injury from concussive blasts a lot of military law enforcement but again not all the time and i see so many people and this is big in the biohacking space bro you're going to probably have people on your podcast that are going to come on that you're going to interview and you're going to be like, what the fuck did I do?
1:00:48This person, something's wrong with them. They're addicted to ketamine. There are a lot of people that are in our space now that are taking too much psilocybin and too much ketamine and they literally have delays. There's literally shit going on. So like, again, I'm not judging you or condemning you if you listen to this or you're like, oh yeah, so-and-so's like that. It's just get off, get help. There are things that can get you off these things. But again, you just got to use these things in moderation. You cannot let them control your life. And too many people wake up every day and take their psilocybin or their ketamine because they're like, I got to get through the day and this is how I do it.
1:01:22And it's no different than the people vaping, you know, taking Ambien's, you know, taking painkillers or whatever it is. I mean, again, it's just an escape, dude. They're disconnecting and escaping. Yeah. I could talk to you all day, man. I, I, I, this is, this stuff fascinates me. I actually, uh, I did do deep dives into your YouTube channel. I didn't get into the nicotine stuff. Uh, cause I love the way you talk about it. I mean, I think it's very real. It's very actionable. And I think, um, you're really dialed into, to, to certainly the way I think people who want to take ownership of their health need to think about these things.
1:02:00So I appreciate the hell out of you. I want to let everyone know that, um, I'm going to get some, some links to some of the stuff that Jay talked about and make sure they're in the descriptions also I want to make sure we get them over to you so they can check them out where's the best place someone who's listening who's like I got to get into this guy's world what's the best way to do that so great thing and by the way I'm happy to give you a affiliate link with bio longevity labs too so you can get any supplements that people can buy and stuff from you and we'll get that separated after the show but the number one place people can find me is my website it's jaycampbell jay and then campbell like the soup spelled out dot com it's probably now in the top three websites in the world for peptides, hormones, fitness, fat loss, all these crazy things that we talked about here today.
1:02:43Last month, we had 65 ,000 unique users, which is a record. And then my new company, which we just launched in November of last year, is called Bio Longevity Labs. And if you use the coupon code J-A-Y-C, you can save 15 % off. You can edit this if you want to have a code for yourself, but Ryan's code, whatever it'll be, will be 15 % off too. We are the number one product seller right now in the world of small molecules, like all the most advanced bleeding edge products for fat loss, muscle gain, cognition improvement, skin quality improvement, hair regrowth, you name it, we have it, even gut and disease fixing, stuff like that.
1:03:23We have a lot of different new, very bleeding edge products. So again, that's biolongevitylabs.com. And then if you wanna connect with me on social media, my handle is for everything, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X is where you'll find me most is Jay Campbell. And then the number three, three, three. Got it, dude. Appreciate you. Keep doing this work. Guys, highly recommend you jump over to jaycampbell.com. Check it out. And I will make sure I have all the links to the things that we discussed in the show notes. So just scroll down, whether you're on YouTube or whatever you listen to. Jay, appreciate it.
1:03:57Ryan, thank you, brother. That was amazing.
1:04:08In a crude laboratory in the basement of his home. Yeah!
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