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The Diary Of A CEO: Episode 181 Summary
Podcast Overview Host: Steven Bartlett Podcast Description: Steven Bartlett details his journey from a university dropout to a successful entrepreneur and podcast host, aiming to deliver unfiltered stories from influential figures around the globe.
Episode Details Episode Title: Moment 181: 5 Things Your Body Is Probably Missing, That's Making You Sick!
Guest
Gary Brecka, Professional Human Biologist
Episode Description: In this episode, Gary Brecka discusses simple, everyday actions to prevent chronic diseases, emphasizing both physiological and psychological benefits.
Key Concepts and Discussions
Introduction to Preventative Health
- Invisible Fence Concept: Gary Brecka introduces the idea of an "invisible fence" which involves preemptively filtering harmful substances before they reach the body.
Five Essential Health Practices
- Drink Mineralized Water
- Add Sea Salt: Use Baja gold or Celtic sea salt to add trace minerals often missing from our diets.
- Avoid Table Salt: Traditional table salt lacks essential minerals and may contain harmful substances.
- Omega-3 Supplementation
- DHA/EPA Oils: Important for anti-inflammatory benefits and overall health.
- MCT Oils: Also beneficial when consumed in the morning alongside Omega-3s.
- Morning Routine with Nature
- Grounding: Engage in grounding by making direct contact with the earth to balance the body's charge.
- Sunlight Exposure: Essential for Vitamin D synthesis and circadian rhythm regulation.
- Breathwork: Breathing exercises such as Wim Hof method help enhance oxygenation and mental clarity.
- Grounding Explained
- Scientific Basis: Contact with the earth's surface can alter blood cell charge, improving circulation and detoxification.
- Misconceptions: Living on the ground floor isn't sufficient for grounding; direct contact with soil or grass is necessary.
- Breathwork and Consistency
- Routine Importance: Establish a morning routine with breathwork to build self-confidence through consistency.
- Psychological Benefits: Keeping small promises to oneself aids in maintaining self-trust and psychological health.
Additional Insights
- Impact of Consistency: Fulfilling promises to oneself, even small ones, fosters confidence and self-reliance.
- Current Health Myths: Dispels myths about changing blood pH through alkaline water, emphasizing the importance of oxygen and grounding in maintaining an alkaline state.
Sponsors and Promotions
- NetSuite: Highlighted as a crucial tool for business efficiency and management, particularly beneficial for Stevens’ team at Flight Studio.
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- Gary Brecka’s Website: [Gary Brecka](https://www.garybrecka.com)
Conclusion In this episode, Gary Brecka provides actionable insights into maintaining health through simple daily habits, focusing on the integration of nature and mindful practices into one's routine for both physical and psychological benefits.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Q1 is often when businesses start implementing new systems and processes in hopes of creating efficiencies for the year ahead. And over the course of my career, I've learnt just how crucial having the right systems in places, one which has helped me across many of my investments is NetSuite. They're also a sponsor of this podcast. NetSuite is the number one cloud financial system through their streamlined platform. You'll find all of your accounting financial management inventory and HR in one place. Their technology has been a real game changer, especially for my team at Flight Studio. As over the last year, we've moved out of startup mode and into scale at mode.
0:35We no longer have to juggle multiple systems and having everything together has reduced the number of manual tasks and errors. Over 41 ,000 businesses have chosen to future proof their business with NetSuite. So if you'd like to learn how it can help your business, head to netsuite .com slash Bartlett and free download the CFO's guide to AI and machine learning. That's netsuite .com slash Bartlett.
0:59So what are the societal and individual level things that we can be doing to prevent us even getting these chronic diseases? Like the simple, simple things. I'll tell you the simplest thing that we can do. First, we should think about having an invisible fence around us. Like a little force field. And we should filter things before they make it to the temple. Because either we can filter things for the temple or we can let the temple be the filter. So you can drink tap water. And if you drink tap water, your body will filter out the fluoride, the chlorine, the microplastics, the pharmaceuticals.
1:37Or you can filter your water before you drink it. And take one toxic load off your body. So what I would say is probably five things that I would commit to doing on a regular basis. Number one is upon waking, I would drink a mineralized water. I would take 10 ounces of water and I would add either a Celtic sea salt or a Baja gold salt to my water. The reason for that is that most of us are deficient in some or several of the trace minerals in our body. The boring ones, boron, manganese, molybdom, selenium, and stirred up and just whack it back. The second thing I would do is you don't think we're not table -throwing.
2:16No, no, not sodium chloride. No, I'm talking about Baja gold sea salt. That's probably the best salt that you can put in the human body because it has all 91 trace minerals. It's tested down to 250 parts per billion from microplastics and glyphosate. Only about 75 % of that sodium crystal is actually sodium. The rest of them is all of these trace minerals. You can get very close to that with Celtic salt. If you can't get Celtic salt then you could move to a pink Himalayan sea salt. Probably pink Himalayan sea salt. Recently is that a lot of it has heavy metals because it's coming out of China.
2:51I would say the best salt is Baja gold. A great salt is Celtic salt and a decent salt is pink Himalayan sea salt. Forget table salt. I would just get that permanently out of your life. Okay, so number one, I have my bar. Mineralize. Mineralize. And then number two, I would take a DHA EPA fish oil supplement or a fatty acid supplement with DHA or EPA oil. On MCT oil, I would take a fatty acid oil in the morning. And Omega supplement. And Omega. Omega three. And Omega three. And then I would develop a morning routine that included the basics from mother nature. Sunlight. Grounding. Breathwork. Culture.
3:35Okay, so I wanted to zoom in here on grounding. I'm a huge fan of grounding. My girlfriend grounds. And again, listen, my girlfriend's much smarter than I am at transpires because everything she says, I think I said this to you last time, everything she says to me, eventually I see her with like a neuroscientist a year later and turns out she was absolutely right. And I thought she was a little bit cuckoo for thinking that, getting outside in the morning and putting her feet on the ground were at all beneficial. But I've been told time and time again, it is. What is grounding and why does it help?
4:05So we get three things from mother nature. We get magnetism from the earth. We get oxygen from the air. We get light from the sun. The further we get away from those things, the sicker we become. Really? Yes. Absolutely. And magnetism, it sounds like a spiritual cuckoo style. Yeah, I mean, probably 10 ,000 years ago, they probably thought the same thing about gravity, you know, but the earth has a low -gouse current. Right? I mean, we were meant to spend 85 % of our time outside. We spend 97 % of our time indoors now. The truth is, most of us are not getting enough sun. We're not getting too much sun.
4:38We're not getting enough sun. And, you know, because of the way we eat and seed oils and everything that are, that are oxidizing in our skin, our cancer rates are exploding, but not because of our sun exposures, because of our diet. And we could talk about that later. But when you touch the surface of the earth, when bare feet touch a pair of soil, grass, sand. We discharge into the earth. And by that, I mean, you actually change the polarity in the body. And this is measurable. In fact, if you want to do a little experience, find somebody that has a microscope, the basic microscope and get a slide and just take a prick your finger and take a drop of your blood and put it on that slide, spear it around, and look at it under the microscope.
5:16I think I have a video that's on my Instagram. And what you'll see when you look at your blood in real time is you'll see most of your red blood cells are stuck together in columbed up, not clotted, but they're attracted to each other. Because when cells have the same charge, they repel. When they repel, it increases the amount of surface area that that cell has to contact the outside environment. So now it can exchange waste, it can eliminate waste to toxify repair, can regenerate. So imagine that you have bloodstream full of red blood cells and they start to get opposite charges. So they attract.
5:49And when they attract, they touch. And everywhere that they touch, that cell loses surface area to exchange with the outside environment. When you touch the surface of the earth for a few minutes, you will repolarize those. prick your finger 10 minutes after you come inside, put it back on that same slide, look at your blood. It's going to look like eggs slithering around in a bowl of oil. They will bump into each other and they'll be sliding around, but they will not be clumped together and stuck. So what's going on then? May I speak what coming through my feet? The charge coming through my feet?
6:20Yeah. So you're actually discharging into the earth. You're exchanging ions to low -gouse current. So like a magnet, you're exchanging ions with the earth and you're discharging. You're grounding. What if I live on the ground floor? Do I still have to go outside? Yes, you got to touch bare dirt, soil, grass, sand. Why can't I, if I live on the ground floor, why doesn't the floor in the lower floor of the house? Because that insulates you from the earth's magnetic field. It's usually steel, concrete, wood. There's other barriers, tile, asphalt. There are things that actually prevent you from actually contacting the surface of the earth.
6:53You know, there are grounding mattresses that you plug into the ground wire. And then that ground wire, if you look at how grounding a circuit occurs, at some point is running directly into the ground. There will be a pole in the ground that is connected, usually by copper, to that wire and connected to your outlet to ground that outlet. Can I just get some kind of mat? That has the same charge. You could get a PMF mat. But again, you know, one of the things I get a lot of flack of is saying that you have to buy all of this expensive equipment. So there's two ways to do it. You can buy a pulse electro -magnetic field mat, PMF mat.
7:29I have one. They cost about five grand. So if you've got five grand lying around, it's one of the best investments you can make. You put it in your bed, you go to sleep on it, you run a low -gouse current at night. It will help get you into a deep sleep. You'll wake up alkaline every morning. It will push the electro -smog right out of your body, because PMF gets rid of electro -smog 5G, Wi -Fi. When you say you'll wake up alkaline every morning. So when you change the pH of the blood, it's a pretty narrow range. It's about 5 -10s of a point, it's about half a point. And it's a complete fallacy that you can change the pH of the blood by drinking alkaline water.
8:07Alkaline water will not actually change the pH of your blood. If you want to change the pH of your blood amongst other things, you apply a low -gouse current. pH stands for potential hydrogens, a charge. And so by running a low -gouse current through the body or touching the surface of the earth, you actually can move the pH of the blood slightly. And that goes... An alkaline state is a disease -free state. The more acidic we get, the sicker we become. And so... And so if we want to move the pH of the blood slightly, if we want to wake up alkaline, if we want to run a low -gouse current through our body, we can either touch the surface of the earth or we're by a PMF mat.
8:44So they've done tests where someone lays on a PMF mat for a cent of time. They then do a blood test, and they find that the blood is more alkaline. Yes. Yes. And that separation of blood cells, you can see instantly getting off of a PMF mat. Again, I've got videos of me doing this to my production manager in my house, breaking his finger, putting it on the slide, putting on the PMF and actually looking at it afterwards. The second thing I would do is I would learn to do breath work. I use something called a hypermax, which is based on Dr. Van Arden and Dr. Otto Warburg's Nobel Prize winning work.
9:20And that is the... It's called multi -step oxygen therapy, where you actually take an oxygen concentrator, you fill up a bag full of 900 liters of 95 % or two, and you actually just breathe that 95 % or two for 10 to 12 minutes while you're active on a treadmill. But if you don't want to have an EWAT exercise with oxygen therapy machine, you can learn to do breath work, engage the auxiliary muscles of respiration, get oxygen down into the lobes of your lungs and out of the apex of your lungs. One of the articles that I quoted that turned out not to be a study, and I still can't reference for it was that after age 35, 90 % of people will never sprint again.
9:58And again, I haven't been able to find if that came from a clinical study or if it was on article. But whether or not that's true, the vast majority of people stop engaging their auxiliary muscles of respiration, you know, really exercising our diaphragm, using the inner costume muscles between our ribs, pushing air down into lobes of our body. And as our posture collapses and our CO2 rises, you know, if you think about the expired air in your body from the tip of your nose, the tip of your mouth, all the way down your esophagus, out your bronchials into the farthest reaches of your lungs, that's all expired air.
10:35Until you get the oxygen all the way down and out to the edges of the lung, you're not getting oxygen into the bloodstream. So as we age and our posture collapse, our respiratory rate gets more and more shallow, we're essentially hyperventilating carbon dioxide. And which is accelerating aging, I mean, aging is the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease. And so by just learning how to do breath work. So one, I would ground two, I would learn to do breath work. I do a whim off style of breath work. I do three rounds of 30 breaths with an extended breath hold every single morning. It is the one thing that I never, ever, ever, ever miss.
11:13Why? Ever. Because I make little promises to myself and I try to keep them. And I find that I lose confidence in myself when I consistently break really small promises to myself. And I think a lot of people do this. And our body's crave consistency. And so at least confidence in yourself. You say, you know, I'm going to go to bed at 10 30 tonight and you go to bed at 1 a .m. You know, and then you say, I'm going to work out and first thing in the morning and you actually don't work out or you get up in the morning, you say, I listen to that podcast. I'm going to do what Gary said. I'm going to ground and get some sunlight and I'm going to do some breath work.
11:54And then you actually don't do it. So the little internal promises that you make to yourself. And I feel like a lot of people break these little promises to themselves. If they're not making them to their spouse or to their kids or to their partners or, you know, they're not the big promises that everybody knows about. And I think it nibbles away at our self confidence and our own ability to trust ourselves. And so I am a morning routine. I'm very consistent with it. But the one thing that is portable for me is the ability to get outside and ground and do breath work. And I never, ever, ever miss.
12:31I can't even tell you how many years I've gone without missing single morning of breath work. The other thing that it does for me because, you know, human beings crave consistency. So if we've been in 30 minutes of waking every day, no matter what time zone you're in, you're doing three rounds of 30 breaths, your body begins to zero in on that and it begins to understand that that's the morning. This is go time. And so simple to do, you know, when I'm here, I wake up and might be at a different time because I'm usually on the East Coast. So I wake up earlier here, but I go, I open the door. I go out on the balcony, I sit on the chair.
13:03It's nice and cool outside. I face the sun and I do three rounds of 30 breaths every single day.
13:12Q1 is often when businesses start implementing new systems and processes in hopes of creating efficiencies for the year ahead. And over the course of my career, I've learnt just how crucial having the right systems in places, one which has helped me across many of my investments is NetSuite. They're also a sponsor of this podcast. NetSuite is the number one cloud financial system through their streamlined platform. You'll find all of your accounting financial management inventory and HR in one place. Their technology has been a real game changer, especially for my team at Flight Studio. As over the last year, we've moved out of startup mode and into scale at mode.
13:47We no longer have to juggle multiple systems and having everything together has reduced the number of manual tasks and errors. Over 41 ,000 businesses have chosen to future proof their business with NetSuite. So if you'd like to learn how it can help your business, head to NetSuite .com slash Bartlett and free download the CFO's guide to AI and machine learning. That's NetSuite .com slash Bartlett.
From the publisher
In this moment, professional Human Biologist Gary Brecka discusses the simple actions that people can take everyday to prevent chronic diseases. These preventative steps include drinking mineralised water, taking Omega 3 supplements, but also having a morning routine that incorporates Mother Nature, using grounding and breathwork. Gary believes that these steps have a psychological benefit as well, as they represent internal promises that you make to yourself, and if you fulfil them every day, it helps to instil self-confidence and trust.
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