Episode #079 I Ultimate Biohacking with Gary Brecka

In this conversation, Gary Brecka shares his journey from predicting life expectancy in the insurance industry to focusing on extending lives through understanding health and nutrition. He emphasizes the importance of modifiable risk factors, nutrient deficiencies, and the role of genetics in health. Brecka discusses the misconceptions surrounding ADHD and mental health, advocating for a more holistic approach to health that includes proper supplementation and understanding individual needs. In this conversation, Gary Brecka discusses the impact of common oils on inflammation, the misunderstood role of cholesterol, and the benefits of hydrogen water in reducing inflammation and promoting longevity. He also explores the differences between hydrogen inhalation and hydrogen water, the significance of ozone therapy, and the concept of deuterium-depleted water. Brecka emphasizes accessible health solutions such as grounding, sunlight exposure, and breathwork as simple yet effective methods for enhancing well-being. In this conversation, Gary Brecka discusses the importance of sleep and its impact on health, emphasizing practical routines to enhance sleep quality. He also shares insights into his recent legal battles regarding business partnerships, highlighting the need for accountability and the challenges faced when profit motives overshadow genuine service to humanity.
Takeaways
Gary Brecka transitioned from predicting death to extending life.
Modifiable risk factors are key to improving health.
Nutrient deficiencies are a major health crisis.
ADHD is often misunderstood as an attention deficit.
Genetics play a crucial role in nutrient conversion.
Supplementation should be tailored to individual needs.
Vitamin D3 is critical for human function.
Folic acid is synthetic and not naturally occurring.
Black seed oil differs significantly from industrial seed oils.
Education on nutrition is essential for better health. Common oils are often pro-inflammatory despite being labeled as healthy.
Cholesterol is often blamed for cardiovascular issues, but it is a response to inflammation.
Hydrogen water can significantly reduce inflammation and improve health markers.
Studies show that hydrogen water can increase telomere length, indicating longevity.
Hydrogen gas is beneficial for gut health and overall well-being.
Ozone therapy is effective for killing viruses and cleaning the blood.
Deuterium depleted water may be beneficial for critical illnesses but is expensive and hard to find.
Grounding and sunlight exposure are simple, free methods to improve health.
Breathwork can enhance oxygen delivery and vascular health.
Accessible health solutions can be derived from nature rather than expensive products. Expose your skin to sunlight for better sleep.
Deep sleep is more important than sleep duration.
Prioritize sleep by establishing a consistent bedtime.
Darken your room to improve sleep quality.
Use magnesium supplements to aid sleep.
Contrast showers can help break the thought cycle before bed.
Routine is crucial for maintaining health and wellness.
Accountability in business partnerships is essential.
The focus should be on serving humanity, not just profits.
Social media provides a platform for spreading important messages.

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Transcript

JEAN FALLACARA (00:01)
Thank you, Gary, for joining. I'm so happy to have you. That's awesome.

Gary Brecka (00:03)
Okay.

Thank you, man. I'm so happy to be here, man. Really happy to be here.

JEAN FALLACARA (00:08)
Yeah,

it's a great pleasure for us at the magazine to have you and we've been back and forth with you to get you because we think that you are one of the most prominent bio-alkers out there and the most influential from far. So it was important. Yeah. All right. Let's get started and let's tell our public your story.

Gary Brecka (00:25)
Thank you so much. Yeah, it's kind of you.

JEAN FALLACARA (00:35)
I know that many people know where you're coming from, but if we can just cover quickly your background and you are coming from the insurance company, you were predicting death and now you're extending lives. So tell us about it, please.

Gary Brecka (00:49)
Yes. Yeah,

so, so for the better, you know, first of all, I'm not a physician, not licensed to practice medicine. I'm, I'm a human biologist. My undergraduate degrees were in biology. My postgraduate degrees were in human biology, or are in human biology. And for the better part of 20 years, I worked in a niche market of life insurance where if we got 10 years of medical records on you and 10 years of demographic data,

we could tell the insurance company how long you had to live to the month. And I get lot of flack for that because people go, well, if you could predict life expectancy to the month, you would have won a Nobel Prize. But it's not me. I promise you it's some of the most accurate science in the world. If you want to know how accurate insurance companies are at predicting death,

Just look at what happened during the 2008, 2009 financial services crisis. We had 364 banks fail. You didn't have a single life insurance company fail. There's some of the most solvent institutions in the world. They know that. And they take a level of risk on one variable. How many more months does somebody have left on earth?

that no other financial services enterprise would have. So they're very accurate at looking at what are the predispositions for early mortality. And the truth is that what was constantly coming out of this data was that the reason why most people are not living healthier, happier, longer, more fulfilling lives were for what we call modifiable risk factors. And a modifiable risk factor,

JEAN FALLACARA (02:26)
Okay tell us about that.

Gary Brecka (02:30)
is what if I could change a variable in my life, a nutrient, a vitamin, a mineral, an amino acid, a lifestyle habit, what would that do in terms of impacting how long I have left on earth? And the majority of the reason why people were not living longer health spans were because of these modifiable risk factors. And it became glaringly apparent to me that if I had had the chance during my career,

to just pick up the phone and contact one of these people and say, listen, you have critically low levels of vitamin D3. If you just made this change, this is how you would feel. You actually don't have the hypertension you've been diagnosed with. You have this high amino acid in your blood called homocysteine. If we could get that down, your blood pressure might return to normal. You don't actually have a thyroid.

hypothyroid issue, you have poor conversion of thyroid hormone in your liver, in your gut, in your periphery. And if you took these supplements, you would see that change. Because modern medicine would have you believe that if you have a disease, that you need to subscribe to a lifetime of medication. And if you look at cellular biology,

JEAN FALLACARA (03:40)
break.

Gary Brecka (03:43)
If you were, if I was to put a chart behind me of the complicated community that cells live in, the cellular biology, the process of what we call methylation, how cells repair, divide, eliminate waste, detoxify, regenerate, what you would see all over this chart.

or wouldn't see chemicals, you wouldn't see synthetics, you wouldn't see pharmaceuticals, you would see nutrients, you would see vitamins, minerals, you'd see amino acids. And you could look at this chart and you could say, well, what if I took this nutrient out? What are the consequences? Well, now I have poor gut motility. Now I can't convert neurotransmitters from amino acids in my gut and therefore I have a mood disorder or a mental illness.

JEAN FALLACARA (04:08)
Sure.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Gary Brecka (04:32)
a healthy immune system and therefore it's malfunctioning because it's attacking tissue in my body and I've been told I have an autoimmune disease when really I have a weakened immune system secondary to something like leaky gut or heavy metals or viruses or parasites. And so we're not as sick or diseased or as pathological as we think we are.

We are nutrient deficient. And yeah, food is a big one. mean, the soil is so depleted now of basic minerals that are so necessary for cellular biology. And there are ways to put these back in the body. I mean, if you want to see magic happen in human beings, you give their body the raw material it needs to do its job. This is when you see miracles happen. And they're not miracles. It's just a God-given design.

JEAN FALLACARA (04:56)
to the food. Yeah.

Bray.

Gary Brecka (05:23)
needs certain nutrients to operate. And we believe this in plant physiology, but we've lost faith in this in human physiology. You know, I always use the analogy that if you had a leaf, let's say rotting in a palm tree, and you called a true arborist, a true botanist out to your house, they would never touch the leaf. They would core test the soil. And they would say,

JEAN FALLACARA (05:38)
Mm-hmm.

No.

Gary Brecka (05:49)
You know what? There's no nitrogen in the soil. And they would add nitrogen to the soil and the leaf would heal. Human beings are no different. When you deprive the body of certain raw materials, take vitamin D3, for example, you start to deplete this key nutrient. It's the only vitamin that human beings make on our own. There are hundreds of vitamins in your bloodstream right now. Your body is only capable of making one. One.

JEAN FALLACARA (05:53)
Right.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (06:16)
We make it from sunlight and cholesterol. You don't even need to eat or drink to make vitamin D3. so think about how important that must be to human function. And what happens when it gets to critically low levels, like it is in 50 % of the population, like it is in 85 % of the dark complexed population, African-Americans, Latinos, what happens? Well, now you get the expression of that deficiency.

autoimmune conditions, brittle bone disease, osteopenia, osteoporosis, or immune function. And now what's happening is the consequences of deficiency are showing up as pathology and you're treating the pathology, not the deficiency. You're up there messing around with the leaf when you need to be down in the soil. And...

JEAN FALLACARA (06:44)
Right.

done in the sun.

Gary Brecka (07:03)
And so, you know, my message is really just a message of hope, you know, that we have to find ways to get around the current system, right? Because, especially here in the United States, you know, I'm so excited about this new administration. And I don't mean that, yeah, not a Republican Democrat thing, a MAHA thing, because...

JEAN FALLACARA (07:11)
Yeah, what? It's not an easy job to do.

The maha. Yeah.

Yeah.

Gary Brecka (07:27)
In fact, I'll be at the inauguration for President Trump on the 20th and the Maha Ball. And I have decided to commit a very large part of my adult lifetime in the next four years to this movement, because we have a real chance to affect public policy. And we have a real chance to make real lasting change. Because aside from the corruption in our food supply, chemical companies, pharmaceutical companies, food companies,

JEAN FALLACARA (07:32)
nice.

Gary Brecka (07:55)
We've just taken away what God gave us, right? You deplete the nutrients out of the soil. You deplete the nutrients in the plants and the animals. You deplete the nutrients in the food, you deplete the human being. And this is why a lot of my biohacks are like really simple. know, like one of my favorite biohacks is just a mineral salt. I drink a lot of You know, a lot of it goes back to simple hydration.

JEAN FALLACARA (08:13)
Yeah, and we're drinking, yeah, and drinking hydrogen water as well.

Gary Brecka (08:24)
supplementation with the right amino acids, supplementing with the right methylated multivitamins and with the right fatty acids.

JEAN FALLACARA (08:31)
But

Gary, you know what? It is true, but people are not educated for that. And we need to educate them to make sure that they understand those principles because we've been brainwashed for decades and we've been taught when we were a kid, oh, this is good for you. Eat candies, eat that, eat this. But no one knows today if you go to someone and you tell him, hey, sugar is not good for you. What? Yeah? Yeah.

Gary Brecka (08:56)
Yeah, Sugar's

not good for you. Seed oils are not good for you. Highly processed foods. I mean, you look at the United States as a whole, we spend $4.5 trillion a year on healthcare, okay, more than any other civilized nation in the world, $4.5 trillion. And we are the sickest, fattest, most disease-ridden nation in the world. We lead the world in seven things, infant mortality, maternal mortality, meaning mother's dying at birth.

JEAN FALLACARA (09:00)
Right.

Mm-hmm. Right.

side.

Gary Brecka (09:22)
lowest life expectancy of the next 66 nations in the world. We lead the world in infant mortality, type 2 diabetes, morbid obesity, and multiple chronic disease in a single bio, meaning in one person. And why is that? It's certainly not because we're not spending enough money on

JEAN FALLACARA (09:27)
Yeah.

Gary Brecka (09:43)
pharmaceuticals, certainly because we're not spending enough money on synthetics and chemicals. It's because we are nutrient deficient. And when I say this, which is why I want people to get data on their bodies. So many people are walking around suffering from anxiety and ADHD, and they just think it's just a natural part of life. But nobody stopped to tell them what these conditions really are.

JEAN FALLACARA (09:51)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (10:12)
One of my favorite things to do is to take any ailment that somebody has, an autoimmune disease, ADD, ADHD, OCD. Okay, let's go to ADHD because that's a big one. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is not an attention deficit at all. It's actually an attention overload disorder. By that I mean,

JEAN FALLACARA (10:21)
ADHD, I was just to bring that up, Yeah. Yeah. Let's do it.

Gary Brecka (10:36)
It's not an inability to pay attention. It's an inability to pay attention to so many things. Because in the human mind, we don't just create thought. We also dismantle thought. We break thought down. And if you create thought at a faster rate than you break it down, then the mind becomes very clouded. And we call this an attention deficit, but it's truly an attention overload. So the question is,

JEAN FALLACARA (10:41)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

lot of other information.

Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (11:06)
What breaks down thought? How do we break down these neurotransmitters that create thought? Because modern medicine says, well, if the mind is racing, Thought, thought, thought. Then what we should do is, let's put an amphetamine into the body to race the central nervous system to match the pace of the mind. And this is a very poor idea because you're taking the system that's not broken and you're breaking it.

JEAN FALLACARA (11:19)
60,000, yeah, per day.

Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (11:36)
to match the system that is. It's like getting a flat tire and getting out of the car and slashing your other three tires. mean, you create an equilibrium.

JEAN FALLACARA (11:42)
Yes. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know if you were gonna go far with that. By the way,

have you been ADHD?

Gary Brecka (11:53)
I've been diagnosed with ADHD my entire life.

JEAN FALLACARA (11:55)
Yeah, and

did you take those type of medication as well?

Gary Brecka (11:59)
I did, I've had Adderall,

Vyvan's, I've been on both prescriptions. When I realized that in our mind we produce a category of neurotransmitters called catecholamines, which are also fight or flight transmitters of fedro, norepinephrine, epinephrine, dopamine, one of these we call adrenaline. When these neurotransmitters rise, it creates a weakened, active state in the mind.

JEAN FALLACARA (12:02)
Bye, Vincia.

bright.

Gary Brecka (12:27)
And so I'm thinking about a job I'm working on and my friend walks up. So I'm thinking about a job, I start talking to my friend. While I'm talking to my friend, I notice a logo on his jacket that reminds me of a vacation I want to take. And now I'm thinking about a job, talking to my friend, looking at the logo, thinking about a vacation I want to take, all at the same time. And, you know, then my friend goes, hey, Gary, my grandmother passed away on Sunday. And I go, that's a great idea.

JEAN FALLACARA (12:41)
you

Yeah.

Gary Brecka (12:57)
Because I'm not present because my mind is everywhere else. What if I was able to create a thought and end a thought? And then create a thought and end a thought. And what are the nutrients? are the compounds that lead us to do this? Believe it or not, it is as simple as the complex of B vitamins, something called methylfolate, and a form of B12 called methylcobalamin.

JEAN FALLACARA (13:01)
Yeah.

Where can we find that? Just on supplement or can we find it from food?

Gary Brecka (13:24)
You can get those supplements.

You can get them in methylated multivitamins. I'm coming out with my own vitamin in about a month that I've worked very hard on. But regardless, there are great supplements out there that people can take that are methylated, meaning the nutrients are already converted. So think about this. In the human body,

JEAN FALLACARA (13:32)
Nice. OK.

Gary Brecka (13:46)
There is not a single compound known to mankind. There is no vitamin, no mineral, no amino acid, no nutrient that we put into our bodies that is used in the format that we put it in. Without exception, everything that enters our body has to be converted into the usable form for the body to recognize it. Just like how we pull crude oil out of the ground, but you cannot put crude oil into your gas tank.

JEAN FALLACARA (13:51)
Mm-hmm.

and

Gary Brecka (14:16)
Right? Because the car doesn't understand that fuel source. If you take crude oil, refine it into gasoline, now the car can run. If you take vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nutrients, proteins, carbohydrates, all of these things and convert them into the form the body can use, that's what the body needs. If you can't make this conversion, you have a deficiency. It is this deficiency.

JEAN FALLACARA (14:22)
works.

Gary Brecka (14:43)
that leads to the expression of some of the most common ailments that we suffer from. As we get older, we think that we are suffering the consequences of aging because we have brain fog or weight gain or water retention or poor sleep or poor focus and concentration, or we don't have the same response to exercise.

JEAN FALLACARA (14:48)
Make sense?

Yeah.

Gary Brecka (15:06)
And none of those things are consequences of aging. They are consequences of missing raw material in the human body.

JEAN FALLACARA (15:13)
So off converting raw material then. I mean, do you mean by that, that we are lacking the machinery behind it, the expression of genes that allows us to make the conversion?

Gary Brecka (15:27)
Yes. So for example, one of the most common gene mutations in the world is called MTHFR. MTHFR. It looks like the motherfucker gene, but it doesn't. Can I say that on this? We can cut that out if we have to. It's not the motherfucker gene. It stands for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase. But essentially what this does is.

JEAN FALLACARA (15:31)
Mm-hmm.

What is it?

I am the guy to help.

Done.

Gary Brecka (15:54)
It takes the folic acid and the folate that enters our body and it converts it into the active form. It takes folic acid and converts it into the active form called methylfolate. Well, what if we can't make this conversion? That doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize that folic acid is the most prevalent nutrient in the human diet. And also folic acid.

JEAN FALLACARA (16:10)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (16:19)
is an entirely manmade chemical. You cannot find folic acid anywhere on the surface of the earth. It does not exist naturally in nature. How it became the preeminent supplement for pregnant women is beyond me, because how could something that is not created naturally in nature or found anywhere on the surface of the earth be the secret to a healthy pregnancy? It's not. Until it is converted into methylfolate. And so if you know that you have this gene mutation MTHFR,

JEAN FALLACARA (16:31)
Yeah.

Gary Brecka (16:49)
which is why I think that everybody one time in their life should do a methylation test, a methylation gene test. It's usually a simple cheek swab, send it to a lab, send you back the results, and it says, here's the nutrients your body can't convert.

JEAN FALLACARA (16:59)
Yeah.

It's

part of these epigenetic tests that people can buy from companies like True Diagnostic and others.

Gary Brecka (17:10)
Yes.

Yes. Soon you'll be able

to get it directly from me, but yes, you can buy it from, Genova and all kinds of places. you certainly don't have to do the test through me, but what it will do, it doesn't look at all of your genes, right? If I was to look at your genes, I could see you have light skin and light eyes and you have detached ear lobes, but there's nothing you can do with that genetic information. Right? Yeah. You've got a nice smile. Who cares?

JEAN FALLACARA (17:18)
Yeah.

I can't be perfect.

Gary Brecka (17:43)
Yo, there's nothing you can do with that information. But when I see that you can't convert certain B vitamins, when I see that you cannot metabolize homocysteine, which can become one of the most inflammatory compounds in the human body, when I see that you can't convert CoQ10 into Ubiquitin at all, and you know these things, you now have a roadmap for supplementation. You see, because most people are supplementing for the sake of supplementing.

are not supplementing for deficiency. And the sad thing is, man, you cannot get on social media or Google or anywhere else without hearing that every supplement is the panacea to a long life. You can make an argument for everything, St. John's, CoQ10, Ashwagandha, know, Resveratrol, NAD, they're all amazing. The question is, what does your body need? What are you deficient in? And you have to start there.

JEAN FALLACARA (18:27)
Yeah.

Gary Brecka (18:40)
Because if I go back to the tree example, if you didn't test the soil and find out that it was missing nitrogen, and you just started to do things that were good for trees, but water on it, nothing happened. You put phosphorus into the soil, nothing happened. You put sulfur into the soil, nothing happened. You put nitrogen, the leaf. This is what happens in human beings. So you find the deficiency and supplement for it.

JEAN FALLACARA (18:50)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (19:08)
You don't know what is causing your cellular biology to not be dysfunctional. So in other words, take the thyroid, for example. Most people that are diagnosed with hypothyroid, low thyroid function.

JEAN FALLACARA (19:21)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (19:22)
are diagnosed because they have low levels of something called T3 hormone. I'm simplifying a little bit, but so the thyroid creates these two hormones, right? It creates T4 and it creates T3. When T3 gets low, this is called hypothyroid. What do we do? We medicate the thyroid.

JEAN FALLACARA (19:40)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (19:43)
But we're holding the thyroid responsible very often for a crime it's not committing. And what I mean by that is when T3 is low, 80 % of the T3 in your blood is not made by the thyroid. So why are we holding the thyroid responsible for low levels of T3? The question is, where is the other 80 % of the thyroid hormone made?

Well, technically it's made in the liver and the gut and the periphery. It is deiodinized in the liver and it's made in the gut and the periphery. And so essentially this T4 hormone, just circulating around our bodies, gets into the liver and the gut and it gets converted into T3. So if it's low, chances are it's not the thyroid, it's your liver, your gut, your periphery. And what are the nutrients the body needs? Thiamine, iodine.

JEAN FALLACARA (20:29)
just don't even, right?

Gary Brecka (20:37)
and selenium. And if you're deficient in those, the body can't make the conversion. There's nothing wrong with the organ of the thyroid, but we still medicate it for a crime it's not committing. I you want to talk about a pandemic. We have a pandemic in this country of medicating organs because we are holding them responsible for crimes they're not committing.

JEAN FALLACARA (20:45)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, well,

big pharma have always been working that way anyway. Like they spot on the problem and they try to fix it, like you said, for tarot. But let's go back to supplement. One supplement that I would say you can take without knowing or without making testing, would it be magnesium, for example? We see that 65 % of the population is deficient in magnesium.

Gary Brecka (21:26)
Yes, what I would suggest is if you don't want to do the test and you want to start somewhere, get a methylated, that's an important term, multivitamin. Because what this means is that manufacturer has taken that vitamin and converted the nutrients. They are assuming that your body cannot convert anything, okay? And they're going to convert it for you. So in other words, 100 % of the population can take methylfolate.

JEAN FALLACARA (21:36)
OK.

Gary Brecka (21:54)
44 % of the population cannot convert folic acid to methylfolate. So let's just give people methylfolate. And what's the problem with that? It's slightly more expensive. So for manufacturers, it reduces their profit margin. You know, there is a lot of the population, in fact, every human being struggles with the conversion of cyanocobalamin form of B12.

JEAN FALLACARA (22:02)
Mm-hmm.

I didn't know

that.

Gary Brecka (22:19)
body has to convert it into the active form before it can use it. If you put cyanocobalamin B12, which is synthetic B12 into the body, the body will convert it to the active form, then use it. So why don't you save that step for your body? And the others that I would say are very safe to take are a D3 with K2 supplement. think everybody, unless you are working in the sun without a shirt on on a regular basis,

JEAN FALLACARA (22:26)
Yeah.

Yeah, very popular, yeah.

And you live in

Miami. my God. Yeah.

Gary Brecka (22:49)
You live in Miami and I live in Miami and as you can tell, I don't get a lot of sun. It is a beautiful day out there too, brother.

was gorgeous out. but the, you know, vitamin D3, about 5,000 IUs of D3 and make sure it has something called K2, vitamin K2. Because remember D3 is, is amongst other things, it's calcium transport.

JEAN FALLACARA (23:14)
bright.

Gary Brecka (23:15)
and the K2 will help that calcium go into the bone and not into the arterial wall. I would also take a supplement, either a black seed oil or an omega-3 fatty acid.

JEAN FALLACARA (23:27)
I stop you there. So

let's explain to people. You said black seed oil. Many people when they hear seed oil, they're just on panic.

Gary Brecka (23:38)
Yeah, now black seed oil is very different than seed oils. Seed oils are industrial processed oils. So sunflower, safflower, canola, peanut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, rapeseed. But the way these oils are produced is, let's say you take a canola plant, right, which is a rapeseed, and you put it in a commercial press and it comes out gummy.

JEAN FALLACARA (23:40)
I know.

Gary Brecka (24:04)
Well, now they degum it with something called hexane. Hexane is a very powerful neurotoxin. Once it's degum, they heat it to 405 degrees and they turn it rancid. So now it's putrefied. And so now what do we deodorize it with? We deodorize it with sodium hydroxide, a very powerful carcinogen.

JEAN FALLACARA (24:08)
Yeah.

tastes like...

Gary Brecka (24:27)
We use a neurotoxin and a carcinogen. And then sometimes we even commercially bleach the oil because it's cloudy before we bottle it and put it on the shelf. And then we stick a nice heart healthy label on it. And we say, this is a heart healthy polyunsaturated fatty acid. These things are so pro-inflammatory for years, the corruption in our public policy nutritional research led us to believe that these were not only heart healthy, which is what the American Heart Association said, but they didn't cause any harm.

JEAN FALLACARA (24:38)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Gary Brecka (24:57)
skyrocketing rates of cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis. And so when we create massive amounts of inflammation in the body, then what this does is it causes things like cholesterol to be called to these sites of inflammation. you damage the wall of the artery, what's called the endothelium or the glycocalyx, if you damage that, cholesterol is going to show up to try to repair it.

JEAN FALLACARA (25:01)
Number one, yeah, factor number one for this,

Gary Brecka (25:27)
And then we start blaming cholesterol for a crime it doesn't commit because it happens to be at the scene of the crime, but it didn't show up and cause the damage. You know, I liken it to a firefighter. Whenever there's a fire, a fireman shows up to put the fire out. So you could make the analogy, well, every time there's a fire, there's a fireman. So if we had less firemen, we'd have less fires, but that's not true.

JEAN FALLACARA (25:29)
Mm-hmm.

There's a firefighter around it!

Gary Brecka (25:56)
because it was called to that site of inflammation. A firefighter is never going to show up to my house until I light it on fire. So cholesterol will rarely just show up and start to create a clog if there isn't a rationale, if there isn't a fire, inflammatory process to call it there. And what causes these inflammatory processes?

High amounts of insulin, hyperinsulinemia, very often why I say sugar and inflammation are all evil. It's the very reason why I drink hydrogen water.

JEAN FALLACARA (26:21)
Sure, yeah.

me. Yeah, explain.

So is that reducing inflammation at all?

Gary Brecka (26:31)
Let

me show you something I might even have. I do. Let's see if I have.

Let see if I can actually do an experiment with you live. Hold on. Let's get rid of this hydrogen motor.

JEAN FALLACARA (26:44)
Let's do it!

Gary Brecka (26:51)
So what I'm going to do, I'll take a bottle of water here. show you exactly what I mean. I'll see if I can show this to you in real time. So if you want to know whether or not something is causing inflammation or whether or not it's reducing inflammation, you can measure something called its oxidative reduction potential.

JEAN FALLACARA (27:13)
Mm-hmm.

Right, they remember that from school. Yeah.

Gary Brecka (27:21)
You remember that from school. Can you see this? Okay,

what does that number say?

JEAN FALLACARA (27:26)
One point.

Gary Brecka (27:28)
It says 105, 105. Can you see it's at one? Oh, I put it too far in there. Okay. So it was a browned 105. Okay. So the more positive a number is, the more it is causing inflammation. So in other words, this water will hydrate you. It's a clean mineral water. I drink it all the time, but it is causing some inflammation.

JEAN FALLACARA (27:30)
One or five, yeah.

Ninety five, 98. Yeah. OK.

Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (27:55)
If something is reducing inflammation, if it's donating ions, when you say something's an antioxidant, it is donating ions, then like blueberries or antioxidants, then it will have a negative ORP. So I want you to watch what happens. Tell me when you can see that number. OK. So I want you to watch what happens when I begin to add hydrogen water. I want this to go negative.

JEAN FALLACARA (27:59)
ions.

It goes down, yeah. A

negative, yeah, minus eight, minus 120, 30, 50, 200, oh my God.

Gary Brecka (28:30)
Look how fast that number, look we're at 338. This is gonna go to minus 400 or minus 500, right? So what did I do? I just immediately turned this water from causing inflammation to reducing inflammation simply by adding hydrogen gas.

JEAN FALLACARA (28:32)
Yeah.

Yep.

Wow.

So you're giving an

exchange of ions into the water.

Gary Brecka (28:57)
you're putting hydrogen gas into the water, those hydrogen nanobubbles you ingest and they reduce inflammation. They improve circulation. There was a really interesting study done in the Journal of Experimental Gerontology. It was published in November of 2021. And there've been dozens since. And they actually looked at older men and women, aged 70 and older, and they had them do nothing but replace their water with hydrogen water for six months.

The results are astounding. encourage you to look this study up. Journal of American Journal of... Yeah, I'll send you the study. And the reason why I like this one, the study in particular is because it didn't look at just young healthy athletes or vibrant young men and women. looked at men and women, age 70 and older. And what they found was at the end of six months, compared to the control group that drank normal water,

JEAN FALLACARA (29:29)
yeah we're going to share the link with the public yes

Yeah.

Gary Brecka (29:53)
They had an increase in telomere length, which is a sign of longevity. They had a reduction in all of their inflammatory markers that they measured, C-reactive protein, homocysteine, things like this, a creatine, phosphokinase. Their sleep scores improved. They reported less pain. They had less inflammation. And they actually were able to measure levels of

JEAN FALLACARA (29:57)
Plunge your day, yeah?

Gary Brecka (30:21)
compounds in the brain increasing in the frontal lobe of these individuals. So it not only, yes, they're thinking faster, their mental clarity improved, their sleep improved, fine lines and wrinkles in their skin improved. Why? Because the microvascular system, which is 70 % of our circulation, remember 70 % of our circulation is not done by our hearts.

JEAN FALLACARA (30:28)
You are thinking faster.

Gary Brecka (30:46)
Most people think our heart circulates all the blood in our body. It doesn't. Our heart circulates 30 % of the blood in our body. 70 % of the blood is circulated by an activity called vasomotion or vasomotor.

Think of a snake swallowing a mouse. So the blood reaches the entrance of these tiny little capillaries and then this wave-like motion moves it along. The same way that we move contents through our intestine, very similar. There's no pressure behind your intestinal tract. There is an actual peristaltic motion that moves the contents. Same thing happens in our circulatory system. Well, as we age, that's the first part of the circulatory system to be affected. Just simply by adding, I take

JEAN FALLACARA (31:29)
hydrogen.

Gary Brecka (31:29)
these

out, tablets called H2 tabs. It'll cost you less than a dollar a day. it's just the letter H, the number two tabs. And you drop these elemental magnesium tablets in, it turns a bottle of water into high part per million hydrogen water. You just took it from causing inflammation to massively reducing inflammation and improving your circulation.

JEAN FALLACARA (31:32)
Right, yes.

Do you

need to drink that bottle right away?

Gary Brecka (31:56)
No, this one is good. This is called an Echo, E-C-H-O. This will last you, it will stay hydrated for about five hours after you make it. And takes about four minutes for it to make it. Or you can buy the tablets, which is much less money. This thing's about 250 bucks. I got a of them. I never get off a plane without it.

JEAN FALLACARA (31:59)
Mm-hmm.

Wow.

Yeah.

You get two! They weren't special.

Gary Brecka (32:22)
Yeah,

crazy. It'll negate all the effects of travel. It's like having, you know, personal anti-inflammatory with you all the time, but you can get the inexpensive tablets and drop them in the water too for less.

JEAN FALLACARA (32:33)
Same effect,

Tell me, I'm using hydrogen by inhalation. What's the difference? Yeah, okay. So you have that too, yeah.

Gary Brecka (32:40)
That's what that is right there.

That once in a while I'll put a nasal cannula sin. I just filled it with distilled water. And it looks really weird on the interview if I've got like a nasal thing. Yeah. Yeah. We do it together. It might not look so weird. Funny that you say that. So this thing I can even travel with.

JEAN FALLACARA (32:49)
Right.

That's it.

I'll put mine, you put yours.

Gary Brecka (33:11)
But, you know, next to my red light bed, have a hydrogen inhalation machine. Whenever I'm in red light, I just put the nasal cannulas in and run hydrogen gas. Remember, you're probably 60, 67 % water by weight, right, is hydrogen. Hydrogen gas is very good for the human body. I really encourage people to go to hydrogenstudies.com.

JEAN FALLACARA (33:17)
as well.

Yeah.

Gary Brecka (33:34)
and just independently look at the research for yourself, you'll be astounded at the amount of research that has been done on hydrogen gas and its implications in the body.

JEAN FALLACARA (33:43)
Hydrogen, hydrogen itself. But yeah,

let me ask you a question, Gary, because people probably get lost in the process. They hear about hydrogen, they hear about deuterium depleted water, then they hear about ozone and they don't know which gas, what to do, what's the best.

Gary Brecka (34:05)
Let's talk about each of those then, why don't we do that. So hydrogen is the safest and probably most studied gas in the world.

JEAN FALLACARA (34:07)
Okay, yeah.

Gary Brecka (34:14)
You can bathe in it, it goes transdermal, it's excellent for reducing joint pain and inflammation, it's great for psoriasis, eczema, all kinds of skin conditions. By the way, don't take my word for it, the studies are out there, I'll link a few of them in the show notes. You can drink it and it feeds an entire class of bacteria in your gut, you need hydrogen gas in our gut in order for our bacteria to be functioning optimally, reduces inflammation, improves circulation. Water that is running

JEAN FALLACARA (34:28)
Please, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Gary Brecka (34:44)
naturally

in the stream has higher part per million hydrogen than stagnant waters that you get in water bottles.

And so then you go to ozone gas. Now ozone gas is 03. And ozone is phenomenal. I have a minor Herc's reaction right here on my elbow because I just had a hebo2 ozone. They actually have in the other room in my master bedroom, I have a HOCAB machine, which is just thermal ozone, a huge fan of ozone. What happens with ozone is when you use it intravenously, there are lots of ways to do it. You can do it in an IV bag. You can do what's

JEAN FALLACARA (34:55)
Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Okay.

Gary Brecka (35:22)
10 pass ozone, pulls the blood out, ozones it, puts it back in. Probably the best is something called EBO2, which is where the blood gets filtered and gets ozone gas added to it. You can do it transdermally, not even break the skin. You can actually get it through a chamber called a HOCAT, and it will warm the body up with steam and it'll mist the body with ozone gas.

JEAN FALLACARA (35:39)
Yeah.

Gary Brecka (35:48)
So ozone gas is O3. That third oxygen molecule is one of the most reactive species in the world. It does not want to be there. And so when it enters the bloodstream or passes through the skin, you have an oxygen molecule that enters the blood, which is very good for you. And then you have this O3 molecule that acts like a missile to free radicals and inflammation. It is very good at killing viruses, mold spores, mycotoxins.

cleaning the blood. It was very effective against COVID, COVID-19 even in ICUs under the right to triact people were infused with ozone. Now it's not a gas you want to breathe, can be caustic to the lungs. It is a gas you want to infuse into the bloodstream or transdermally.

JEAN FALLACARA (36:28)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (36:37)
Yeah, you don't want to breathe ozone gas. All the air filters that I use in my home have an ozone setting. So when I leave, I hit a button and it puts ozone gas into the air. That will kill everything. Mold spores, mycotoxins, it'll kill termites under your subfloor. And when you come back, when the gas has dissipated, it's harmless. So create it.

JEAN FALLACARA (36:57)
that's an important

point because I do remember that back in the 2000s, they withdraw everything that was ozone generator from the market because they were scared about the effect on people. Like the photocopy machine, they had to be like moved away from offices as well.

Gary Brecka (37:16)
so insane. You don't want to be in the room when an ozone machine is gassing. You can come back into the room as soon as that gas dissipates. What's very sad is that ozone gas is great at sterilizing these things. It is the enemy of mold, micro toxins, viruses, people that suffer from Lyme disease, heavy metal toxicity, mold toxicity. We live in the mold capital of the world.

JEAN FALLACARA (37:22)
Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah,

Gary Brecka (37:44)
Miami, you know, we like won the mold lottery here. So.

JEAN FALLACARA (37:45)
Miami, I know. We cannot have everything, you know, we live in paradise, we have to have some things negative.

Gary Brecka (37:53)
Yeah, there's gotta be one down the side, right?

So, we saw through our clinic system, thousands of mold and mycotoxin poisonings. So this is an area that we're very, very familiar with. And then you have...

JEAN FALLACARA (38:13)
Yeah, but

if you don't mind, Gary, so we spoke about hydrogen, we spoke about ozone, and what about deuterium depleted water? Is that something that we should look at?

Gary Brecka (38:28)
So there is some science to deuterium

depleted water. First of all, deuterium depleted water is very hard to make. There are few places in the world that can make it. Hungary, maybe some places in the United States right now, I'm not aware of any. And it's very expensive. And essentially what deuterium depleted water is, is it is what they call light water. Deuterium depleted water has one less proton than other...

JEAN FALLACARA (38:33)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (38:56)
waters and this doesn't sound like a big deal but when you look at water from a chemical structure as water enters the mitochondria this extra ion can break the mitochondria so if i was to slice open your mitochondria and sort of look through it okay it would look like a you know opening the door of a ballroom and

Thousands of couples beautifully dancing in unison to the sound of music, just very rhythmically dancing this cycle called the Krebs cycle, which is generating ATP and making energy for the body. Deuterium water is like the drunk fraternity brother.

then nobody invited, he shows up and he just runs through the crowd. Okay? And every time he runs into one of these couples, they fall apart and they go to the ground and they don't get up. It will break the Krebs cycle and it will not repair. So over time, higher levels of deuterium will have a negative effect on mitochondrial function. And so the theory is if we drink deuterium depleted water,

to offset the deuterium water in our body, we can bring these levels down. And there is definitely some science behind that. However, I would consider deuterium depleted water if I had a specific critical illness. If I was a cancer patient, critically sick with mitochondrial dysfunction or severe autoimmune. Otherwise, for daily drinking, I would use hydrogen water.

JEAN FALLACARA (40:22)
Okay, yeah.

Hydrogen water.

It's easy, simple, it's not expensive, it's accessible, it's yeah.

Gary Brecka (40:37)
It's important, it's not expensive,

it's widely available, it's extraordinarily safe. I mean, extraordinarily safe in terms of contraindication. Pregnant women can drink hydrogen water. If you have a pacemaker, if you have autoimmune, you can have hydrogen water.

JEAN FALLACARA (40:47)
Beautiful. Yeah. like that tip.

The problem we have been seeing in this bio-working community is like, we came in this market and we've seen this market changing over the past 20 years with people selling more and more complex solution for very high rich people. And I like the way that you just bring that up.

is like hydrogen water, not expensive at all, very accessible. What else do we have that we can offer this public that is free?

Gary Brecka (41:18)
No.

I'll tell you what you can do for free. You know, at my former company, we sold something called the superhuman protocol. And the superhuman protocol was a PMF mat, $5,000. An oxygen system and exercise with oxygen system, $5,000. And a red light bed, $119,000. So if you have $129,000 lying around, you can buy the superhuman protocol. But what is it based on?

JEAN FALLACARA (41:31)
Mm-hmm.

You

Gary Brecka (41:52)
It's based on the magnetism, the oxygen, and the light from Mother Nature. The best modalities take what God gave us and turn it into what man makes us. And so the best biohacking...

you know, opportunities are out in Mother Nature. So if you want to get this protocol for free, take your shoes off and touch the surface of the earth. That's the first thing. Grounding, earthing, these are very real things. People want to poo poo it as like, you know, some kind of hippie science. It's absolutely valid science. If you want to change the charge in the body, you contact the surface of the earth. The surface of the earth has a low Gauss current. It can actually change the structure of your blood. I've done, I've done

JEAN FALLACARA (42:22)
Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, there is valid science.

Gary Brecka (42:36)
this

several times where I prick people's fingers, put it on a slide, on a microscope just like this. I think I have one over here too, but I got that over there. you know, put it, oh they're both right here, I got two microscopes there. Now you know I'm a nerd. So, because you always need two microscopes handy. You put the blood on a microscope and you can actually see that the red blood cells are kind of clumped together and stuck up. Send somebody out in bare feet, touch the surface of the earth, about

JEAN FALLACARA (42:41)
Yeah.

I had to do it too.

Gary Brecka (43:06)
six to 10 minutes walking around grass and come back in and test your blood again. Instantly you'll see that that grounding charge has repolarized the surface of the red blood cell and now the cells can't touch because remember if things have the same charge they can't As soon as they get opposite charges they attract and so what happens is every time they touch we lose surface area.

JEAN FALLACARA (43:22)
True. Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

Gary Brecka (43:30)
And now this part of the surface area can't exchange with the outside environment. It can't eliminate waste, repair, detoxify, regenerate. And the second thing I would do is expose your skin to that right there. We have been taught to fear the sun. The truth is most of us are not getting enough sun. It's not that we're getting too much sun. It's that we are very photovoltaic beings. We need light. Light is important for ourselves.

JEAN FALLACARA (43:43)
To that, yeah, yeah.

True.

How much light

we need?

Gary Brecka (44:00)
Well, the best time to get light, if you're worried about the UVA and the UVB rays that burn your skin and create premature aging, go out at first light. The first 45 to 90 minutes of the day, there's no UVA or UVB light. There's only healthy blue light. I don't mean the blue light from your screen. I mean healthy blue light from the sun. Resets your cortisol. It resets your melatonin.

JEAN FALLACARA (44:04)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Gary Brecka (44:24)
It actually resets your circadian clock. And some of the research coming out of whoop, which is fascinating. I really believe in these guys. I believe in the research that they're collecting. Some of the research that's coming out of whoop now is fascinating because they're saying that one of the best ways to restore circadian rhythm and have a good night's sleep at night.

JEAN FALLACARA (44:44)
Good morning.

Gary Brecka (44:45)
is to get sunlight in your eyes in the morning without glasses. Now these aren't readers, by the way. These are blue light glasses. They have no prescription in them. You probably see by the tint. So I wear blue light glasses when I'm on computers a lot. But when I'm outside, I don't wear glasses. I just allow the light to hit my eyes. In the morning, I take my shirt off, allow sunlight to hit my skin. And you make a little vitamin D3. You expose your skin to sunlight. And...

JEAN FALLACARA (44:47)
Sunday in the morning. Yeah. Yeah.

in the afternoon. Yeah.

and you optimize

your sleep for tonight.

Gary Brecka (45:16)
and you optimize your sleep for that night. And then the last thing you wanna do is learn to do some simple breath work, right? Because as we age, one of the things that happens is our auxiliary muscles of respiration begin to weaken. And our auxiliary muscles of respiration are like our inner costals. When I override my body's natural...

subconscious, you know, capacity to breathe. I'm using my inner costals. Most of us after the age of 30 will never even sprint again. We don't start, you know, we don't respire very often. So you want to be a superhuman and spend zero? Get out in the morning, touch the surface of the earth, get sunlight on your skin and do a few rounds of breath work. I do a few rounds of what's called a Wim Hof style of breath work. So all kinds of breath, pranayama, different forms.

JEAN FALLACARA (45:50)
True.

No.

Yeah, like we know

the one in four stages. And what is the Wim Hof one? It's simple.

Gary Brecka (46:19)
So Wim Hof is essentially three rounds of 30 breaths. Start with three rounds of five, because you get really lightheaded. Don't do it while you're driving or standing. Make sure you're sitting comfortably, preferably outside in the sunlight. And what you do is you take an obnoxiously deep breath in through your nose or through your mouth. Just get the air in and you let it out.

JEAN FALLACARA (46:22)
Mm-hmm.

Nice.

Gary Brecka (46:48)
On your fifth breath, and eventually you want to work from five to 10 to 15, work your way up to 30. On your fifth breath, exhale and hold. Hold your breath as long as you can because the main vasodilator, excuse me, in the human body is not nitric oxide, it's carbon dioxide. The reason why we get vascular during exercise is because of the carbon dioxide going back to the lungs.

JEAN FALLACARA (47:12)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (47:16)
And so, carbon dioxide will dilate your vascular system. So after you breathe, exhale and hold as long as you can. And the reason why you're holding is to allow the carbon dioxide to build up, that vasodilation to begin, and then take a deep breath in, hold that breath as long as you can, exhale, and start over.

Let me tell you something, have your audience, if you're watching this podcast, for the next seven days, try to wake up as close to morning light as possible. If you're blessed enough to be in a warmer climate, go outside, expose as much of your skin to sunlight. I'm on a balcony so I can only expose so much skin, because I got neighbors at the same level over there. I flash them every day. They've seen plenty of my abs.

And expose your skin to sunlight. If you can, touch the surface of the earth, and I'm talking six or 10 minutes, this entire cycle, and do three rounds of five to 10 deep breaths with a breath hold in between. That's it. Don't change anything else about your routine. And if you're somebody that monitors your sleep scores, you have a whoop or you have an aura or a sleep late mattress or something,

JEAN FALLACARA (48:22)
That's it.

Yeah.

Gary Brecka (48:31)
You look at how much your deep and REM sleep improve. Your sleep will not lengthen, it will deepen. Just from that exercise.

JEAN FALLACARA (48:39)
which is the most

important, yeah, deep sleep, REM sleep.

Gary Brecka (48:43)
Let me tell you something, sleep is our human superpower. You know, if you're not sleeping,

JEAN FALLACARA (48:49)
Like many people

on this planet, they have a problem with sleep.

Gary Brecka (48:53)
Yeah, you can't supplement your way around a poor sleep. You can't exercise your way around it either. And so, you know, when I ask most people about their sleep routine or their sleep hygiene, I say, well, what do do to go to sleep? And they go, well, I go to bed. And I go, okay. So that's kind of the answer I was looking for. What time do you go to bed? Well, whenever I'm done getting my stuff done. If you just set a week.

JEAN FALLACARA (48:55)
No.

Gary Brecka (49:17)
and said, okay, this week I'm gonna prioritize sleep. You just do these five things, which will cost you nothing. Add that simple morning routine that I just spoke about. Rounding, sunlight, breath work. At night, pick a time that's reasonable, 10.30 at night, 11 o'clock at night, and put yourself to bed every night at that time.

JEAN FALLACARA (49:26)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (49:38)
But before you go to bed, do these five things. Darken the room as much as you can. I mean, surgically get light out of the room. If you have a fire alarm, a piece of black tape, put it over top of it. If you have curtains, tighten them so that the light's not coming in. If you have an alarm clock, throw a towel over it. So darken the room. Bring the temperature down two degrees colder than you think. 69 degrees Fahrenheit is a great temperature.

JEAN FALLACARA (50:03)
Okay.

Gary Brecka (50:06)
Before you get in bed, if you're one of those people that ruminate when you go to sleep, I take a sleep supplement called magnesium breakthrough bio-optimizer, bio-optimizer, great company. It has, by the way, I don't have a deal with them. don't own any of them. It has, I'm trying to do a deal with them because I think they have great stuff, but the, it has all seven forms of magnesium. This will also help keep you regular the next morning.

JEAN FALLACARA (50:08)
Yeah.

bio-optimizer.

I love them too.

Yeah.

Gary Brecka (50:35)
Do what I call a contrast shower. I wanna break the catecholamine cycle so when you get in bed, you don't start to ruminate about the thoughts of the day. Most people, when their environment quiets, their mind wakes up. So they don't go to sleep and their body tired, but they are mind awake. And they're like, did I get everything on my grocery list? Did I check that email? That was a nasty comment on Instagram. Nasty comment from back here. Dark in the room.

JEAN FALLACARA (50:47)
Correct.

right. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, the worst thing to do,

Gary Brecka (51:05)
Drop the temperature, get yourself a $5, $8 sleep mask. I prefer the full soft ones that go all the way around, not the ones with the little straps. Those will irritate you at night. Get a sleep mask. Take a contrast shower. Take a magnesium. So contrast shower is where you go into the shower, turn it on warm so you're comfortable. If you want to take shower, take a shower.

JEAN FALLACARA (51:09)
beautiful. Yeah.

So what is it? What is the contrast shower?

Gary Brecka (51:29)
Turn the water as hot as you can stand. Okay. And run the water on the back of your neck. Just let that go down your back and relax you. Um, and then step out of that stream of water, turn it as cold as it will go and step back into that stream of water and just deal with it. Deal with it for 30 seconds. That's it. Maybe a minute max and not talking about a cold blunge, 30 seconds in that cold stream of water. Dry off.

JEAN FALLACARA (51:47)
That's the shock.

Gary Brecka (51:59)
right into bed as your body stores its body temperature. First of all, that will break the thought cycle, the catacholamine cycle. Then you're going to be in a dark room. You're going to have a sleep mask. You're going to be in a cold room. When you get into bed, I want you to do an exercise. It's a combination of breathing and visualization where all you do is just lay on your back, take a long deep breath in through your nose, pause and breathe out through a straw.

JEAN FALLACARA (52:05)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (52:30)
and extend a breath out. I want you to think about taking all of the thoughts from your head and literally breathing them into your lungs. Hold those thoughts in your lungs and breathe them out through the stroke. If there's thoughts in your head, I gotta get my kids to school. Breathe them back out. Did I get everything on my grocery list? Breathe it in, breathe it out. It will be difficult to make it to 10 breaths.

JEAN FALLACARA (52:42)
I love that.

Boom.

That comment on Instagram.

Wow, that's that's

valuable. That is very valuable. Yeah, many people struggle with that.

Gary Brecka (53:01)
Now, do that.

Oh, this is a game changer. You're welcome. I and do that every night for seven nights. Tell your body, you see, we're creatures of habit. We crave routine. We are on a circadian clock, know, biorhythm. We crave routine. You know, ancestrally.

We were forced into our routine. When the sun rose, we got up. When the sun set, shortly thereafter, we went to bed. We didn't have blue light. We didn't regulate our temperature. I couldn't turn my home into the surface of the sun at 2 o'clock in the morning. I didn't have those luxuries. And so we were very tied to the circadian cycle of the sun. We've gotten very disconnected from other needs. And so if we can restore that habitual pattern,

JEAN FALLACARA (53:29)
Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Gary Brecka (53:49)
One of the best things for you is that routine. You know, I schedule all of my meetings and travel around sleep and exercise. Full stop.

JEAN FALLACARA (53:58)
So you mean your priority is like exercise and sleep and then the meetings and travel? Yeah. Yeah, I know.

Gary Brecka (54:03)
and travel. And I travel a lot, you know,

I'm, I, you know, I did a nine cities and 11 days a few months ago, and I posted my sleep scores every day to show how I was changing time zones. To those cities were on opposite sides of the world, when LA to Dubai, and people are like, how are you getting 93 98 % sleep scores on the road, because I do the same thing to go to bed and the same thing to wake up every single day. And so my body knows when this starts to happen, it's time to go sleep.

JEAN FALLACARA (54:13)
Yeah, so that.

Yeah.

Gary Brecka (54:33)
When

this starts to happen, it's time to wake up. I do the same thing to wake up. Like I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, if I didn't say ever, I'll say it again, ever, miss breath work. It's simple. You can travel with it anywhere. You can do three rounds of 30 breaths or three rounds of 15 breaths, wherever you are and tell your body it's time to get up and work. We do this every time it's go time and your body loves this routine and it's portable. You can take it with you. Just like I take hydrogen water everywhere.

JEAN FALLACARA (54:36)
weekend.

True, and it's free.

Yeah, that's

fantastic. That is fantastic. Last thing on this routine, and then we're going to have few minutes to discuss another topic, but what about your phone? And you said like a comment on Instagram and things like that. What people should do with their phone? I always say like two hours before bed and not when you wake up because you trigger cortisol too fast. But what's your take on that?

Gary Brecka (55:26)
So I'm usually an hour and half sometimes, know, truthfully about an hour before bed, you know, I'm off of my phone. There's a setting on your phone where you can actually click your thing three times. It brings up a color. Watch the screen change. See how it goes red. Okay, so I use the red light at night. This is my best friend in bed. I use a Kindle if I want to read in bed.

JEAN FALLACARA (55:35)
Yeah.

Huh?

Gary Brecka (55:52)
And so this is backlit, not blue lit. And so this is when I read, you know, all of my research studies and things. I, you know, I like generally if I'm going to do something in bed, I like it to not be watching reruns of like UFC fights, you know, because that will, you know, that will keep you up. so what I do is, you know, in, in, in my little library here, I've got like,

JEAN FALLACARA (55:56)
Yeah.

Yeah.

No!

Gary Brecka (56:20)
For me, I read a lot of research. I'll look at, in fact, there's the hydrogen. That's actually the hydrogen research study I was actually just doing. Yeah, look at all my notes. The hydrogen rich study on, that's the study I was just quoting you. And this was the study on six month effects of hydrogen rich water in older adults age 70 or older.

JEAN FALLACARA (56:23)
Love it. Yeah. That's perfect. So we're going to share that link. Yeah.

Love it.

How do you memorize

all these things?

Gary Brecka (56:45)
yeah, just constantly because I, you'll see on my notes on telomeres and I'll, so I'm constantly, mean, I read them, I highlight them, I underline them.

JEAN FALLACARA (56:48)
Yeah.

But you have this

faculty that from where you were a student and you memorize and you retain information without technique is because it's a natural talent.

Gary Brecka (57:05)
Yeah, so a lot of people know about my clinical photographic memory, but you don't have to have a clinically photographic memory to be interested in reading research. But I am clinically photographic. When I was young, they thought I was like a savant or autistic, and they just realized that I was clinically photographic. it's a great talent. It's a blessing and a curse, right? Because you don't get to choose what you want.

JEAN FALLACARA (57:26)
That's a great talent to have. Yeah. Yeah.

what you retain.

Gary Brecka (57:34)
So

if I read it, I retain it. So I can't read for pleasure. know, so if I was on an airplane and I read the American Airlines magazine, three months from now, I'll tell you where a condo project is in Buenos Aires that was advertised in there. Yeah. Yeah. so I only, yeah, I only read, you know, I try to...

JEAN FALLACARA (57:40)
Yeah.

my god, yeah.

You need to read Biohackers magazine on plane.

Gary Brecka (58:00)
read things that serve me. This is my current methylation reading, methylation content. So my staff will give me all this research and I'll commit this to memory.

JEAN FALLACARA (58:02)
That makes sense, yeah.

That's impressive.

Yeah. I love that. You know, I also spend my life learning and I'm fascinated by this memorization. Do you have another few minutes? Because I want to take you on this topic that is so hot these days and you are in the middle of this big fight with your former partners. And maybe we can just inform our public on what is happening out there briefly or what happened to make you decide to go that way.

Gary Brecka (58:33)
Yeah.

Yeah, you know, it's a real shame, know. You know, sadly, I think partnerships that don't communicate well, you know, very often and like this, I take some responsibility for not communicating. But you know, what started when they acquired my company, this company started with a real mission, an intentional mission to be in service to humanity and to really touch as many lives as possible, to help as many people with their health outcomes as possible.

JEAN FALLACARA (58:49)
Mm-hmm. True.

Gary Brecka (59:12)
And sadly for my wife and I, know, children used to work there. They were the first ones that they got that got fired. And, and you know, then my wife and I, which were co-founders and started this in a strip mall years ago, cared deeply about the mission for this company. just became glaringly apparent over time that it was all about profits over people. And

We have a different level of connection to the company than the people that acquired us. They obviously acquired us to make money. We started it to make an impact. so that malignment in values, that chasm starts to widen just like it does in any relationship. And sadly, we were minority shareholders. take responsibility for signing the agreements that we signed in retrospect was the

JEAN FALLACARA (59:44)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (1:00:09)
know, worst thing that we ever did. you know, we, we thought we could, you know, sold our company. They thought that they bought our souls and, so.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:00:19)
Yeah, it's mostly

the case on many merger and acquisition.

Gary Brecka (1:00:24)
Yeah, and.

When you have one side that's very myopically concerned solely about the profits and not about the people or the impact, and your intention is to serve humanity, then you start to see this chasm widen. I didn't sue Elena Cardone for money. I sued Elena Cardone for accountability. And I've been very clear that the profits and the proceeds from that lawsuit are not going to go to enrich my wife or myself. They're going to firefighters, veterans, first responders, and our men and women in blue. Every dime that is recovered

JEAN FALLACARA (1:00:31)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (1:00:56)
outside of our attorneys fees is going to go to service those men and women. I don't have a specific dollar amount that I'm suing Brandon Dawson and Cardone Ventures for. I'm suing them for their predatory business practices because they didn't just do it to my wife and I, but they have done it to dozens and dozens of other entrepreneurs. And when we filed the lawsuit, we didn't realize that we were going to become the poster child.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:00:59)
Wow.

Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (1:01:22)
for all of that malfeasance. And now my wife and I feel a growing responsibility to give a voice to all the people that this has happened to. our law firm has been a little overwhelmed by the voluminous amount of inbound. I set up a hotline for people. I thought we would get a few calls and my goodness, we realized we were not alone in what happened to us.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:01:41)
yeah.

Gary Brecka (1:01:50)
What's sad is that what started as a great partnership that was very successful and was really having a great success. Yeah, it became extraordinarily preoccupied with me messaging on anything other than there's solely their products and services. And when that organization turns on you, it is not a pretty site. And so I expect

JEAN FALLACARA (1:01:55)
Yeah, the company was doing great.

Gary Brecka (1:02:19)
A lot more litigation, a lot more accusations. I expect this to be a three year, probably a $10 million battle, but we will stand in the gap. Somebody had to drive a stake in the ground. And the sad thing is there's so many good employees and good practitioners and people there working for that company that really believe in the mission of the company. But you have a management team that is shoving products and services down the throats of...

JEAN FALLACARA (1:02:24)
Yeah. Yeah.

Gary Brecka (1:02:49)
those employees and those practitioners and sadly the patients and the clients that are not in service to them, they're in profit.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:02:50)
Yeah.

Yeah. I think that,

you know, my point and it's very personal. I had the past like that, not the same amplitude, but I sold my company in 21, a biotech company. And it was a public company and I ended up living because of the same things, like profit before purpose. When I look at you, you have this passion for helping people. You give tip for free.

Gary Brecka (1:03:23)
Yeah, thank you. My partners

would have sent me a cease and desist letter for what I've told you so far. I've many of them.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:03:29)
Yeah, but I'm thinking, what about your clients? Because I know many of your clients that are really dedicated to what you are doing. Without you in the company, they're not going to stay.

Gary Brecka (1:03:42)
Yeah, that's the sad thing because, you my intention wasn't to harm the company or to harm the patients or the clients or to harm the employees that are working there. You know, initially I wanted this to be a very quiet separation. My wife and I just couldn't take it anymore. We wanted out. We were very clear in communicating with them that we no longer wanted to be their partners. Initially, Grant Cardone was very receptive to the idea, but his partner.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:03:57)
Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (1:04:10)
Brendan Dawson got involved and we tried to buy them, they refused. We tried to sell them our shares, they refused. We got threats and demand letters for talking about things like hydrogen water, amino acids, or wearing the wrong t-shirt. They really think that when they buy your company that they buy your soul. And I...

JEAN FALLACARA (1:04:32)
Yeah, yeah.

Gary Brecka (1:04:35)
I now see that the pattern that they used in our case is a pattern that they have used over and over and over in this company Cardone Ventures, which has a voluminous appetite for fees and a voluminous appetite for fresh new blood in seats and not a lot of appetite to truly scale businesses. And it's really...

JEAN FALLACARA (1:04:50)
profit. Yeah. Yeah.

Gary Brecka (1:05:03)
It's really very sad.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:05:04)
We're with you

on that. We support you. We like you. And yeah, and you know, yeah.

Gary Brecka (1:05:08)
Thank you. I've been overwhelmed, man. I've been very humbled

by the amount of support. Literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people contacting me, former employees, former executives, shareholders, members, clients, vendors, entrepreneurs.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:05:15)
Yeah, of course.

Yeah.

you do well, know,

you're natural and there things that help people. People see authenticity and this is what pays off at the end of the day. if you are authentic, like people can just learn from you and this is what happened in the past. Now you're free. It's a good thing. Yeah.

Gary Brecka (1:05:41)
Yeah.

Yeah. know,

sad thing is, you know, these environments are so intoxicating. You know, you get into these, you know, these events and like there's celebrities, music and fireworks and like lots of rich people. And it's a very intoxicating environment. you, and you want to believe what's told to you from the stage. You know, I believe Brandon, when he said he was taken advantage of in his previous business and he would never do that to another entrepreneur. Sadly, that's not what happened.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:05:51)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Gary Brecka (1:06:14)
And so now we're becoming the poster child for all of these people that have been harmed and really trying to shed light on cautioning people to just have their eyes wide open. I don't want to harm their business either, but I just.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:06:26)
the practices.

Yeah.

Gary Brecka (1:06:33)
can talk about the experience that we've had and the experience that dozens of other business owners have had. But I also believe that this is a good thing. I think you need to go through a great shedding in life sometimes to really fulfill your purpose.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:06:43)
You know, Gary,

I love that because I think, look at it. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your deep feeling on that. But look, you are in the bioacking movement. You are in this life extension, longevity. Call it as you want, but what are we doing there? We're doing the same thing. We're changing what is a statute code that was dictated by people.

out there saying, no, you need to die. You need to take medication. You need to be obese. And we're starting where are the ignition of that. And you do that in that business. I admire that. Yeah, always. Right. Yeah.

Gary Brecka (1:07:24)
The elites want to silence you. They go, you can't talk about this, you can't talk about that because we don't make money from it.

You know, you can't help people outside of the organization without our supplements, our tests, our blood work, you know, something that we have an answer for. And it was like, guys, there's so much more to helping humanity than just our products or services. There's competition of ours that are doing great things. It's okay if we shout out our competition because they're supposedly in service to the same mission. Or are we just saying that we're in service to this mission, but the truth is that we have these oppressive contracts in place that are going

JEAN FALLACARA (1:07:41)
Yeah.

That's fine.

Gary Brecka (1:08:03)
keep you from actually fulfilling your obligation to help people to the best of your ability. Because if your only way to help someone is their specific product or their specific service or their specific supplement, then you are signing up to the mission that is opposite of what you're bringing out to the market. mean, the tide should raise all of our boats.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:08:24)
what you are. I agree.

Gary Brecka (1:08:30)
The only answer to longevity is not necessarily just 10X Health. 10X Health was an amazing company and it really did a lot of good. But it wasn't the only good company doing good. It wasn't the only manufacturer of supplements, the only manufacturer of equipment. And it's very sad when you message about one thing. The polar opposite of that is true in practice. And that disconnect.

Sickened my wife and I to the point where we walked away from tens of millions of dollars in that organization. Had we kept our mouth shut and just let the revenues pile up, we would eventually execute it on a plan to sell that company. But then all those employees and all those patients and all those clients and all those practitioners and the people whose license was really a risk, we would just left them. We would just turn our back on all of them.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:09:11)
True, true.

Gary Brecka (1:09:26)
The is that the message is still going to get out there. As hard as their lawyers will work to silence me, the message is going to get out there.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:09:28)
Hahaha!

Yeah. Yeah. do. Yeah. It's going to

get there. There is, you know, this is the beauty of the world we live today. You cannot silence people the way you were doing it 20 years ago or 50 years ago. Now social media has an impact and it's uncontrollable and this is it. Yeah. It's a great platform and you're very popular out there. So keep going in that direction. Gary, thank you, brother.

Gary Brecka (1:09:52)
And I have a very big platform.

Thank you.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:10:02)
for sharing all these things. Love you, my man. Yeah, love you. So we're going to work on this magazine very soon, send you the draft copy. If you want to add things or remove, we'll do it. And we go from there. Your team is going to send me nice pictures for the cover. And we're good to go.

Gary Brecka (1:10:04)
You're amazing. Thank you too. Like, yeah.

Amen. Thank you so much, brother. I appreciate you having me on. All right. All right. Have a great day.

JEAN FALLACARA (1:10:24)
Thank you, Ahmed. Of course, I appreciate you. Bye, bro.

Yeah, you too.