Shocking Brain Health Myths DEBUNKED by Dr. Robert Love

22:16Does it dehydrate you? Caffeine can dehydrate you. This is what I want to ask you about. It's kind of where I was like, I'm kind of like poking my way into the portal I want to go into. In a minute, you guys, we're going to talk about the prevention. But believe it or not, we're talking about the reversal of Alzheimer's, according to Dr. Love. So we're going to talk about that in a minute. So stick in there. But I want to ask you about caffeine. So I was thinking all the stuff that I pour my substitutes into kind of have one connection. They bring me caffeine also. So like my coffee brings me caffeine.

22:47Diet sodas do energy drinks do my pre-workout that I take before I work out is loaded with caffeine as well. And I started to read your work and I'm like, ah, crap. I don't know. So I might be in a little trouble here. So let's talk about caffeine because there's one thing I think my audience probably does. and I can't generalize five or eight million people. Most of them work out. And so, and most of them are busy and on the go. And I think caffeine's a part of their life. I think a caffeine is a pretty big part from the minute they wake up for their cup of coffee till at least late in the afternoon for many.

23:21So let's hear about caffeine. I think caffeine's great. Humans love caffeine. Animals love caffeine. Dr. Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist from Stanford, did a great podcast on caffeine. Isn't he great? He shared that bees, bees will go to flowers with caffeine. The liking of caffeine is so deep in our biology, it's shared with bees. And so human beings love caffeine. Number one drug on planet earth, I think number two is alcohol, number three is nicotine, and then number four is cannabis or marijuana. So human beings love their dopamine, right? Cigarettes and coffee. So caffeine, the research shows, it was really interesting.

23:54They did some research in mice and they found that they had mice with Alzheimer's. They gave some of them caffeine and then some of them not caffeine. They found those given caffeine had less amyloid plaque in the brain. So caffeine actually may help reduce the accumulation of amyloid plaque in the brain. And there's tons of studies to show that up to four cups a day, kind of maximum four cups a day of coffee can be good for you. Dr. Stephen Gundry, I just asked him about this. He said, really, it's about the polyphenols in the coffee, which are really good for your gut bacteria. So think just like blueberries are really good for your gut bacteria because of the dark color.

24:23Same thing, coffee, matcha, another great thing, really good for your gut bacteria. By the way, matcha, 10 times the antioxidants of green tea. Um, and so, so coffee really good for your gut bacteria and the caffeine shows to be increased focus, memory and attention, uh, increase energy, you know, pre-workout and, um, and then it can help reduce the accumulation of amyloid plaque. And it's also shown to help reduce a stroke. My theory is I haven't seen this exactly spelled out in the literature, but I think this is what is happening. So caffeine is a vasodilator. So this is your blood vessel. Let's say this is your blood vessel.

24:54Um, we drink caffeine, it constricts, it goes like this. so your blood vessels are tighter and so your blood pressure goes up a little bit. But then when the caffeine goes away, they relax. It's what kind of exercises your blood vessel, right? I think that's a good thing. I think that's why it's so good for your heart is because it kind of exercises your blood vessels. Now, there is a problem with too much caffeine, over 400 milligrams. Your average cup of coffee, really simple, has about 100 milligrams. Average cup of coffee, about 100 milligrams of coffee, caffeine, excuse me. Over 400 milligrams a day can be problematic for some people, especially if taken in the afternoon.

25:25It can impair sleep. You know, caffeine's got a half-life. I don't know what it is. Half-life means how long it takes your body to kind of clear out half of it. So if you have a bunch of caffeine in your body when you go to bed, that can disrupt the architecture of sleep. Also can increase anxiety. And you've certainly seen people who are a little bit stressed and they drink a bunch of coffee and then they're really stressed. Too much coffee can create kind of digestive issues for some people. So I do well on about one giant cup of Bulletproof coffee a day. I like to add MCT oil to my coffee, a little bit of stevia and monk fruit sugar.

25:59I'll add, sometimes I'll add collagen peptides if I'm not fasting or some protein and I'm off to the races. And so it'd be like a pint or like a really big coffee. I do, if I try to do two of those, I find my stomach gets upset. So that's, that's for me. But I mean, coffee generally speaking is great. Make sure it's organic coffee. Conventional coffee in the United States is the second most pesticide crop in the United States after cotton. And so it's a food, it's a food product. And so we don't want to, first of all, we don't want to give companies money who are poisoning us with pesticides in our food.

26:31So I don't recommend buying conventional coffee. And number two, you don't want to put those things in your body. So you want to buy organic coffee, ideally Arabica and then light roast coffee. I don't know if you noticed that light roast coffee has the most caffeine per cup. And it's also got the most antioxidants. So dark roast coffee. I like the flavor of dark roast coffee. It's dark and rich and nice and can have some chocolatey nuttiness. The light roast coffee is a little bit more acidic tasting. you can get like some hints of citrus in there it's got more caffeine and more antioxidants okay okay the good thing is all of your protocol with the stevia and the collagen peptides in my coffee i do all of that except i do dark roast so i can make a switcheroo on that i am organic also

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28:20And then I want to dive in here for a little while. And then we're going to go back to some traditional brain stuff in a minute, guys. So I have a friend who I've known for quite a while. He, I don't know, when I think of like stud guy, I think of this man was an athlete, good looking guy. he did actually work out every day, um, or most every day active, um, relatively healthy, um, very, very ended up becoming a very, very wealthy man. And I've known him since, I guess he was probably in his late thirties and now it's been 20, 25 years. And so he's in his early sixties and I've watched him over the last three years, uh, cognitively decline significantly.

29:11I'm not a doctor. I don't know what it is, but I know that he introduces himself to me now. He tells me the same stories that he used to. Um, and it's heartbreaking when I see him and I think he knows that there's been a slip. And two things, it breaks my heart when I see him and it scares me for me. What he did have is an extremely, he's wound up. He's a tightly wound guy, if you know what I mean. Anxiety, worry, intensity, frustration, stress up the wazoo. And I guess what I'm asking is, are there things we should be doing years before when we are in our twenties, thirties, and forties, or even fifties to ward this terrible thing off in our life.

30:01And if there are things we can do pro, uh, preventatively and prophylactically, what are they? I'll start with a few things people can do in their twenties or why it's important. Then I'll get into the kind of the longer term research on people in our thirties and forties, why this really matters. Um, so I've, I've heard this from a number of different people who follow my channel, they have memory loss and they're in college and this is bad news. So two things, two major risk factors for students. Well, three. One is lack of sleep. Lack of sleep is a bad idea. Drinking alcohols, binge drinking.

30:31If you black out, if you black out multiple times a year, that increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease. I wish I knew that. I drank way too much in college, really dangerously so. I had two friends die from accidents from alcohol when I was in school. And still, we still didn't think it was that dangerous, right? Oh, that just happened to them. Yeah, whatever. Alcohol consumption, really dangerous. And so please moderate your drinking or don't drink in college, probably a really smart idea. And then, so your sleep quality, alcohol consumption, and then mold. A lot of students are moving into dorms that are moldy and then they have memory loss.

31:02And so the mold is hurting their brain. That's definitely a major risk factor. And for those who play sports, concussion. Concussion is a risk factor for dementia later in life. And so if you do get a concussion, make sure you follow a protocol to help your brain regenerate after a concussion. That includes proper sleep, healthy diet, like healthy fatty fish, make sure your brain gets plenty of omega-3 fatty acids, and then certain supplements that can help regrow new brain cells. We talked about lion's mane, curcumin, fish oil, these sorts of things would be really helpful for the brain as it recovers from a traumatic brain injury.

31:35Now, in our 30s, here's the research, Ed. So there's a great study called the Framingham Study out of Framingham, Massachusetts. It's a longitudinal study, and they follow these people literally for generations now. And what they're finding is that Alzheimer's disease starts 30 years before symptoms occur. Okay. Wow. Alzheimer's disease starts 30 years before we see symptoms in the form of, we'd already talked about this, inflammation. So your inflammation levels at age 40 predict your risk of Alzheimer's disease at age 70. So it's a really good idea to do what we can starting today to start reducing inflammation.

32:11That is the major risk factor that carries on over decades. And then of course, habits, lifestyle habits, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes. These of course are very bad for the brain. Sedentary lifestyle, stress, low education is another one that might change as we have access to education in podcasts like this compared to traditional education, but that certainly is a risk factor as well. So starting as early as you can is a really good idea. The current data on this is that in the United States, as of today, 50 % of people aged 80 and above have some form of dementia. 50 % of those age 85 have Alzheimer's disease.

32:54So for those listening, if you want to reach the age of 85 and not have Alzheimer's disease, you got a coin flip chance right now. So I recommend doing everything you can to improve your odds. Start reducing your inflammation now, start improving your sleep, exercise your brain, learn things, and live a life that you love, that you're passionate about, not in front of the TV that makes you afraid of people who have different opinions than yourself. The reason that this matters, everybody, is, you know, you've all listened to the show long enough or should that, you know, if you stick around another 10 years, you'll probably add another 20 to your life.

33:26And so because of all the things that are happening now with, you know, the way genes can be altered in their expression and all the different things we can do medically in the world now, stem cells, all these other things that are here and are coming, you probably will live into your 80s 90s or past 100 years old do you want to do that with a brain that's not functioning so your body is still willing but your mind isn't and if we trail by 30 years none of you are too young to be thinking about these things he's giving you some of the keys if you're saying we'll reduce inflammation how we've talked about some of those supplements you could take some things that would contribute to you being inflamed in your body and so this really matters.

34:06Now, here's some good news, potentially. You believe that you actually are starting to see the signs of not only the halting of the progression of Alzheimer's, but potentially the reversal in your work. And so again, guys, I'm not there. He's there. He's actually going to show us something we can put on the YouTube to show you actually proof of this. So have you talked through what you're showing us and what you've seen? but this is really promising as well. If it's been done once, it can be replicated potentially. So tell us what's going on there. Absolutely. So I have a medical clinic in Boynton Beach, Florida.

34:43The chief medical officer and my partner in this is Dr. Josh Hellman, a medical doctor from Harvard. He and I created the Truth About Alzheimer's program together. He is a specialist in reversing Alzheimer's disease and preventing Alzheimer's disease. And we are participating in an FDA clinical trial of a drug that is FDA approved for compassionate use for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Now, this is not available. This is not totally approved by the FDA. So not everyone has access to it. In fact, very few medical practices have access to it. Now, I need to pardon the big disclaimer.

35:16I just want to make sure no one gets in trouble for this. So first of all, I'm not a medical doctor, not giving you medical advice. Check the medical doctor before doing anything that affects your health. Number two, this drug is not fully approved by the FDA. Number three, I'm not making any claims as far as the efficacy of the drug, and I'm not making any claims that it will work as well for this patient as for you. This patient did very, very well. Results may vary. Do your own research. Okay, so hopefully those are all the legal disclaimers I could possibly give about this clip. And this is a clip of Susie Goldstein.

35:45And Susie Goldstein came in, and first time she came in, she forgot her paperwork to sign. And I don't even know if she brought her check with her to pay for the treatment. The second treatment, she was organized enough to bring in her paperwork. And then at the end of this, you'll see her treatment at the end of six months. She's just a totally different person. Will they be able to hear it on the audio, Dr. Love, or just see it on the YouTube? Will they be able to hear some of this? Yeah, it's auditory. We interview her. We talked to her in this. What we'll do right now is we're going to throw to that right now.

36:13How have you been doing with this so far? I've been okay. I do feel a little bit more organized. And I have more ability to do the things that I want to do. Please say your name and how old you are. Susan Goldstein, 75. What have you noticed over the last six months? It's been great. It's been great. There's definitely been an in-con. And I feel great afterwards, like I do now. Better in conversation, because I used to lose track of thought. Remember that? I did. In telling a story. And I don't seem to do that anymore. anymore. I might lose a word here and there, but I don't, I come back to the story.

37:16Working with Susie, God bless her. It's so wonderful. Oh, I didn't even mention this. She had surgery. She had major surgery in month five. She had neck and spinal surgery. She was under anesthesia for three or five hours, which usually is a killer to memory. And she was able to bounce back after that. And so this is tremendous evidence that she was diagnosed with Alzheimer time when she came into our clinic. So, so the symptoms can certainly, um, be reversed. Um, and her breast not only stopped, but she got, got much better. Um, and so we're seeing that in our patients. Most of our patients show improvement after just one treatment.

37:50And, um, the worst we've seen is, is a slight improvement and then kind of a leveling off. So we've, this treatment prevents decline. It certainly prevents the decline, which is, which is really, um, which is really wonderful. Incredible. Is there something in your routine that you do that we should be doing that we haven't talked about yet? I prioritize my sleep. What's that mean? You mean you have to get a certain amount, like eight hours? You're trying to get into your alpha brainwave state? Like, what's that mean? I give myself nine hours in bed minimum. And so I give myself a chance to do that.

38:22I recently went to, I did the function health blood analysis. Yep. And I went to a longevity doctor and I said, hey, looking at this, what should I do? And then they'd talk to me for a while and they said, hey, you're sleeping at 1 a.m. I said, yeah, I like to work late. They said, well, listen, if you go to bed at 11, your panel will actually improve. Your testosterone will go up. Your energy will go up. And so I shifted my bedtime from 1 a.m. to 11 a.m. this past year. That was a big improvement. I recently got an air filter. Depending on where you live, our air is kind of, it can be really toxic, especially if you're in the city.

38:56And so having a high quality air filter is really important. So prioritizing my sleep is the number one thing that I do. And then I notice if something upsets me, so I track my sleep with an aura ring. If something upsets my sleep, I take note of that. So I eat really early. I try to finish eating by five or 6 PM, go to bed at 11 PM sleep as long as my body needs. And then I intermittent fast until 11, 12 PM. Is this something by the way, that we just really have in common? I just want to say that people always ask me like, Ed, what are you do and you have access to all these people all the time.

39:29Um, it's the number one thing I've worked on in the last year is my sleep. It's actually, I would consider it almost life-changing. And I'm talking about every detail from the temperature in the room. I had to figure out what that needed to be for me, sleep positions. I have a pad that I put under my pillow that, you know, helps generate some stuff in my brain to get me into this state. I, my hydration, when I stop eating, when I get up. I wear the aura ring as well. I checked my HRV. I mean, like I'm doing the whole shebang. And I actually feel in this part of my life, I can't say with my heart or my back, the other things that many of you know that I'm working on.

40:05Those things aren't so hot yet. But in terms of energy and when I wake up, like waking up like when I was 20 with energy, that's how I feel again. I used to wake up tired. I don't wake up tired anymore. I don't even wake up achy or sore anymore. Here's a really weird thing I'm doing. You may think this is bizarre. I take a shower every night before bed. Now there's something about for me with being completely clean and like just freshly showered for me, my body just gets into this more relaxed state. It's just something for me. I just, I'll be shower every day, even sometimes two or three times a but I noticed these rare times where I had just worked out, you know, before bed or whatever, which is not great.

40:46And I took a shower. I'm like, gosh, I feel great when I sleep like this, like perfectly lotions. You know what I mean? Like I'm just, and it's like, I just want everybody to know it's that it's been a life-changing thing for me. I didn't mean to interrupt you about your sleep. No, no, no. That's really interesting. Have you tried sauna before bed? I do. Yep. I have sauna before bed too. I think for me, it's just strange. And I don't want to put any misinformation out cause I'm probably wrong. I think my body wants to get a little bit warm before it goes to sleep ironically and then be in a cold environment while I'm sleeping that's just me I also do the do the blue light blocking lenses for a couple hours before everyone in my house thinks I'm a weirdo for wearing these glasses around the house I'm fighting for every millimeter I can get in the depth of my sleep I actually really believe in my case and in many of your cases as well as you think you're sleeping there's another level to it just like your fitness and I'm just convinced absolutely and you know Brian Johnson who's uh yep I know Brian but he's put out some really great, really great content, really, really trying to help people.

41:43He's working 12 hours a day, trying, trying to do stuff. He said, sleep is his number one thing. So with, with temperature, that's really interesting, Ed, because our body temperature decreases, it drops when we sleep and that's important for deep sleep. And so one of the reasons it's thought that sauna improves sleep quality is that it heats up our core temperature and then our body's fighting to bring down our core temperature, right? That's why the warm shower works before bed for me, because it's an ironic thing you're saying, and we're just speculating here, but when my body is warmer, when it goes to bed in the room is cooler and probably is helping me cool down.

42:15And that's getting me into a deeper level of sleep as well. Those two factors, a little bit warm before I go to sleep and the room really cold, frankly, in my case, um, is this helped me sleep deeper. And that's many other things, no blue light, you know, before and no digestion during that time. Cause I've stopped eating earlier. And And by the way, like as a guy in his 50s, I do most of my hydration way before I go to sleep at night because I don't want to get up five times at night either. So anyway, all of that. When it comes to what your family eats and drinks, you know, your choices matter.

42:51You're the expert because you know what fits your life. And getting it right starts with good information. That's why America's beverage companies are sharing more information about our ingredients at goodtoknowfacts.org. No spin, no judgments, just the facts straight from the experts for more than 140 beverage ingredients. Visit goodtoknowfacts.org. Here's the thing you college guys aren't going to like, and most of my buddies aren't. You talk about college and all the drinking you did. You say, look, alcohol is not so good for you, but you like really go to beer. like i'm afraid to even put this out on the internet if you're going to say what i think because of all the dudes i golf with but like talk about beer and why it might not be so good for your brain hard liquor is probably the worst for your body and brain because it really is really horrible on your gut bacteria except for bourbon and whiskey right no okay crap i wish i wish there were exceptions okay uh beer is really bad for a couple of reasons number one beer's got gluten in it.

43:54A lot of beer has gluten in it. Gluten's inflammatory. Again, inflammation increases the risk of many different chronic diseases, accelerates aging. Number two, beer increases something called uric acid, and uric acid promotes belly fats. We've all heard the expression, beer belly. That's actually true. So when you drink beer, increases uric acid, which promotes the storage of belly fat, which is fat around your belly, as well as your organs. It's actually the dangerous fat. So the fat on your butt is actually not a problem. The fat around your stomach and the fat around your organs is actually the really dangerous fat.

44:24So it promotes that bad fat storage. So those are two reasons why beer is a problem. And Ed, I wanted to say, one of the reasons I drank a lot in college, number one, I thought it was cool. And maybe it was amongst my group of peers who are knuckleheads. Number two was that I was not socially awkward, but I was socially incompetent. And I thought drinking alcohol would make me more socially accepted. And number three, I thought girls would like me. I found out when I went abroad, I studied abroad in Florence, Italy, and I drank less there and actually started smoking more cannabis. I found that when I came back to school, I actually was much more effective at charming the ladies when I drank a lot less.

45:06And so for the men out there who drink alcohol and drink a lot, thinking you're going to end up with a girl, if that's what you're trying to do, I don't recommend doing that, I recommend drinking less and being more interesting, being more charming, and being more present. Because when we drink too much, first of all, it puts us at risk. Because I've gotten hurt drinking too much. I've fallen down, almost gotten hit by cars. Goodness gracious, it's a dangerous thing to do. Number two, you're a fraction of yourself. A ton of your brain is turned off when we're drunk. And people will probably like you much better if you're a nicer version of yourself, if you're more present and your brain isn't turned off from all the alcohol you've consumed.

45:41It's great advice. What about nootropics? Speaking of that. Love nootropics. So one of my favorites is aniracetam. It's about A-N-I-R-A-C-E-T-A-M. I recently published a journal article in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease about aniracetam. And I make the claim that aniracetam likely prevents the accumulation of amyloid plaque in the brain. It likely does us through a couple of different mechanisms. Can you tell us what it's called again? One more time. A-N-I-R-A-C-E-T-A-M. I actually just took some today. And then I learned about this from Dave Asprey again. Thank you, Dave. He talked about in his book, Headstrong.

46:13So anorastam increases acetylcholine activity. Acetylcholine is one of the major neurotransmitters involved in memory. Anorastam also reduces stress and anxiety. And I've had this happen to me. It also increases the likelihood of chills down the spine when listening to music you really like. So I took it once and I felt really good. And I looked this up and then other people were reporting this on message boards as well. I thought, oh, wow, this is a thing. And so my paper is in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. If you look up my name and aniracetam, it'll come up. You don't need to read the paper, but the long and the short of it is aniracetam improved memory in people with Alzheimer's disease in a double-blind placebo-controlled trial in Italy.

46:51And aniracetam is associated with all kinds of different positive benefits. It's very safe. It's neuroprotective. Aniracetam helps recovery from traumatic brain injury and recovery from stroke. They'll give mice concussions and And then they'll give them aniracetam or not. And then we'll see if they remember the water maze. For example, those given aniracetam remember the water maze better. So it can help the brain recover after stroke, traumatic brain injury. And it's neuroprotective as well. It improves memory. It is hard to find. Here's why you don't know about it. It's not FDA approved. Oh, so disclaimer, it's not FDA approved.

47:21Consult your doctor. It is a pharmaceutical drug. It's available in the United States. It's legal to buy. It's legal to sell. It's legal to possess. You can't make any claims about it. So if someone sells anorastam, they can't say improves memory, even though it does, because it's not FDA approved. Now you could say that about a supplement because supplements aren't regulated by the FDA, but pharmaceuticals are. And so this is a pharmaceutical. So it's a prescription drug in other countries. If you go to Europe, you can get it as a prescription in the US. You don't need a prescription, but just no one selling it can talk about its benefits.

47:50Let me ask you the last question. I'm thinking about like training things. Anything else I want to get better in my body, I train it. Like my if I want my biceps to be healthier and better, I train it. If I want my cardio function to be better, I got to push my heart when I'm doing cardio. So your brain, like what about training it? In other words, what things physically or is it? I mean, you always hear people do crossword puzzles. Is it reading more books? Is it challenging yourself to debate? Is it is it writing? Like what physical things can we do, if any, that challenge our brain, push our brain, or does that not make any impact at all?

48:28It absolutely makes an impact. It goes to learning. So neurogenesis, which we talked about, the growth of new brain cells is kind of a combination of things. One, it's growth factors, which you get from exercise or lion's mane. Number two is healthy fats, which you can get from fish oil or eating healthy fatty fish. And number three is learning. You got to have, you got to have something to, to, to grow, right? So a way you can learn is travel, right? Seeing new things, learning new things, experiencing new experiences. These are great ways to grow your brain. Reading is good for two different reasons.

48:54Number one, you often learn something. Number two, if you read a novel, a really good novel, especially Stephen King is a great visual writer, you actually fall into the book. So you're actually dreaming the book, right? You forget that you're reading and your brain is coming up with these images. That's a wonderful exercise for your brain is to read a novel and just fall into it and just be in a fantasy world that you created with your own mind. and you forget that you're reading pages on a reading words on a page. Um, and so, so that's really good. And then reading, reading for information is also very good.

49:22But the important thing is, um, you want to stay physically active and be learning with our hands. You want to be using your, so I'm right-handed. So you want to use your non dominant hand. This is my left hand. So, so do things that are physically challenging for you. Learn new things. Maybe if you cook or garden, learn, learn to do something with your hands. Um, use your, use your off hand, off hand. Oh, sports. So the research on longevity shows that those who play tennis live, I think, seven or nine years longer than those who are sedentary, whereas those who jog only live like two or three years longer.

49:50And tennis is way more fun. There's a couple reasons why. Tennis is the hand-eye coordination, right? So that's really big. So do things with your hands and eyes. Really, really important for your brain. And then number two is tennis is social. So we're having fun. We have that human connection. And you're outside having fun. So all these benefits of tennis increase longevity. So it's learning things and ideas, having novel experiences, doing things you like, ideally. Hopefully you're not learning about calculus if you don't like calculus. Don't do that. I'm still mad they taught me calculus in high school.

50:18I could have learned something useful. I mean, only engineers and mathematicians need calculus, I think. Warren Buffett says, I didn't need anything past geometry. And he knows plenty of math. So learn things that you're interested in and then do some physical learning as well, whether it's a sport. I mean, music is great because you're learning physical and auditory, right? Yep. So that's a great, great connection. But the important thing is to keep your brain active, doing things that you really enjoy. I mean, each of us has, each of us would put here on this planet to experience life as, as yourself, as, as Ed Milot, as, as Robert Love, as, as, as John Smith.

50:54And so please enjoy your life, experience life as you want to. And doing that will expose you to new experiences that will help, help grow new brand. What's the offhand thing? What's up with that? Why offhand? Just think about how much more training your dominant hand has. Okay. Yeah. So much more training. So the neural pathways are so much stronger with your dominant hand. So when you use this, this is challenging. You have to think about it. So do you cook? I do. Yep. Okay. So think about beating eggs. So I'm pretty good with my right hand. My left hand, much harder. I have to think about it.

51:26Yeah. And so it involves much more thought and presence. And it's a different experience to use my left hand in a mixing bowl. Just a really simple procedure. So just try using your left hand. It requires a lot more thought than using your dominant hand. When you're doing your visualizations and your goal setting, I actually teach people to do it when they're brushing their teeth with their off hand. And so that's just right. I just wanted to correlate the two with you. Can I tell you something, Dr. Love? This is exactly how a podcast is supposed to go. I just want you to know this was a great podcast.

51:53Let me tell you why. There was not a wasted minute. We got three hours of content in here in about 55 minutes today. And it's because you get it. You know how to answer questions. you have the answers, you answer them. It's what I said in the very beginning. IQ off the charts, brilliant man, but he can articulate like this. And if every podcast was like this, I would be very, very grateful. And that should, that just speaks to you. I just want to acknowledge you. This is, this is as good as it gets on a topic. We just go right through it. Everything was actionable. Everything was tangible. Everything was valuable.

52:27And so I want to acknowledge you. I want them to be able to find you because you did such a great job. Where do we want to send them to find you. If you want some free downloads and you want to learn, if you want some great lines, man, you go to robertlove.net. So my name.net, there's a bunch of free courses that I offer, and then you can learn about some of the supplements I offer. And then if you want to find me on social media, just I'm Robert WB love on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. If you just search Robert love on any of the channels, you'll probably, you'll probably find me. This was great.

52:54This was great. And so I'm incredibly grateful for the time today, brother. Yeah. I want to have you back on. Thank you. I'd love to be back on. So thank you so much, everybody. This was a tremendous podcast. I hope you're sharing it with everybody that you know. If you're on our email list, just go to EdMiland.com, put your email in there. You'll get the podcast earlier than everybody else. God bless you. Max out. This is the Ed Myland Show.