Lindsey Berkson 418 Toxins and Hormones
https://blog.bulletproof.com/toxic-environment-impacting-sexy-brains-hormones-dr-lindsey-berkson-418/
Bruce Blumberg at the University of California named these endocrine disruptors that make our fat cells not work well and that's contributing to our obesity
You look so fantastic now. Testosterone according to Michael Baker whose one of my gurus who's made the hormones his whole entire life career, he's a scientist at the University of California, testosterone is the stabilizing hormone.
Dale Bredesen 522
https://blog.bulletproof.com/dale-bredesen-522/
Dave: You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. Today's cool fact of the day is that mental cues can alter your physiology. A psychologist named Robert Ader, from the Rochester School of Medicine
MCI, which is mild cognitive impairment, or SCI, which is subjective cognitive impairment.
If you have zero copies of ApoE four, then you have about a nine percent chance, during your lifetime, to develop Alzheimer's. If you have a single copy, it's about a 30% chance. And if you have two copies, it's over 50%
: So it so far would seem that having chronic ketosis seems to be a good thing for mentation, and seems to help you. However, as you know, over time you can develop essentially some resistance. You can lose the metabolic flexibility, the very metabolic flexibility you're trying to achieve. This is why, for many people, it is a good idea every once in a while. Whether you do it once every week, or once every two weeks, to cycle out of that briefly, to keep yourself metabolically flexible. That seems to work better
But, as a general rule, grains, whole grains have been used, as you know, they do have a nice effect because of the fiber, et cetera, and they do have some protein and things. But they do have potential damage and so we generally suggest to people, until you know more, stay away from grains and really focus on the vegetables, the low-glycemic fruit. You want to have a very high, both soluble and insoluble fiber. It helps your biome, it helps your absorption of any sort of carbohydrates, it is great for detoxing, so these are very, very helpful. In general, we suggest people stay away from grains.
Zach Bush 458 Healthy Biome
https://blog.bulletproof.com/eat-dirt-the-secret-to-a-healthy-microbiome-zach-bush-458/
Turns out that one of the more exciting developments that happened in my career was finding that there was some vitamin A compounds that were enabling these cancer cells to shut themselves down and commit suicide. The implications are pretty big because it means that suddenly, you don't need immune system to overcome cancer. That cancer simply eliminates itself when it realizes it's part of a larger organism.
This was at a turning point in the mid 2000s when we were starting to realize that the ATP, while real critical for being a fuel source, was not the eloquence of the mitochondria. The eloquence of the mitochondria is actually the metabolites or breakdown products that are produced on the way to ATP. These, as a family, have been come to recognized at redox molecules, which is contraction of reduction and oxidation. Reduction is the donation of an electron. Oxidation is the absorption of said electron. You put those together, you get a redox environment. You literally are creating a liquid circuit board where you've got electrical energy traveling through intracellular environments.
It's the quantum computer chips that are starting to come out. Super, super, super fast. One quantum computer chip, within about a year and a half, will be able to process as many calculations as all the computers on the entire planet. That's a super fast chip but it has to be in a very special environment. It has to be down near absolute zero. That's exactly like the mitochondria. They produce so much energy and so much information, some 10,000 times the power of the sun, some million fold faster than the information than we pass through our neurons in the brain. We're talking about each of these redox signaling molecules lasting a millionth of a second down to the cell level.
Yeah. At this stage, I hadn't realized at all and I think, as a field, there was no talk about how the bacteria were talking across this spectrum. At this point, redox molecules was really something that was regarded as a mitochondrial event inside the human cells. There was no concept of how the bacteria could possibly be talking inside the cells. However, there was some interesting rumblings coming from some of those crazy hippy doctors in California. UCSD, UCSF were starting to put out some papers on the microbiome genetics. They were starting look at the genomics of the microbiome. They were finding some remarkable correlations of if this bacteria present, then you're going to get this cancer. If these bacteria are missing, you're going to get this cancer. We were starting to see these correlations between microbiome genomics and human disease outcomes. That was complete poppycock, crazy stuff talking in our belief system around how cancer happened and what it was at a disease process and everything else
Yeah. We were people like crazy. We went on these high, intense combinations of short and long-term fasting with high-intensity, nutrient-dense diets. Very low protein. Protein tends to stress the liver and everything else. Low protein, high nutrient. Leave calories out of the equation and go for intense nutrient density. A lot of juicing, a lot of fermentation, a lot of stuff
. You get a cancer but the UCLA and UCSF guys are telling me that there's some correlation between bacteria in your gut and what cancer you're going to get
Within minutes of the bacterial communication network hitting those renal tubule cells, they start making extracellular matrix, starting combining tight junctions across them, going into three dimensional structures, gap junctions, which look like fiber optic cables, by the way, start connecting through there. You've got this cohesive membrane of kidney tissue in a Petri dish never seen before. Phenomenally powerful.
How does a plant create the phenols? The alkaloids are the most extraordinary story coming out of the plants. Plants don't have mitochondria as we do. They have these little plastid that look like mitochondria.
We're now going into realms that was really departing from any understanding of the biology I've been trained in. It was forcing us to ask questions we never ask. On page 40 of a white paper on dirt. It was 90-page white paper.
On page 40 is a huge molecule that on the right side of this, it was in two dimensions but my brain did something really fantastic at that moment. I think my purpose is here. This is why I was born. This is why I did ridiculous journey in academia was just for this moment. The blinders came off. The three-dimensional structure on the right side of that molecule looked like the chemotherapy that I'd been making years previous.
Yeah. It's another version of a soil extract. First came Shilajit, then humic acids, then fulvic acids. Shilajit is primarily a huge mineral density. You get a really potent mineral load. The problem with Shilajit is it's profoundly oxidative. Humic acid falls in the same category. Folic acid is all oxidative as well but has less of the oxidative stress that you get from something like Shilajit.
Electron potential is literally health. Disease is all positive charge absorption of electrons, loss of electron potential.
You can lose the enamel right off your teeth if you're constantly taking humic and Shilajit and things like that and you're doing oxidative damage to the kidneys
Dave Different mechanism, different structure and all that sort of stuff but it seems like a lot of these either ancient or the buckyballs are relatively new in terms of anti-aging to call them carbon 60 or C60 nanospheres.
Terrahydrite is the name of the stuff but the stuff you make is called Restore. That's the stuff that I'm assuming you're talking about.
When I see one of the C60 molecules, the first thing I think of is a laser chamber. I think that is very likely if there's benefit from C60 in the body, it's because it creates resonance chambers at the atomic physics level that's allowing you to stay in coherent vibration because we're not really made of molecules
Charles Brenner 491 NAD
https://blog.bulletproof.com/charles-brenner/
I was minding my own business working on an enzyme back in the early 2000s. The end product of this enzyme pathway was production of NAD, the central regulator of metabolism
There was a huge amount of interest in NAD arising just at that time because NAD is required for the function of sirtuins. Sirtuins are these longevity-promoting genes that are found in everything from yeast to human beings. Folks were starting to manipulate the NAD pathway to see if they could extend lifespan in something like a yeast cell.When I looked at the evidence basis for how NAD is made even in something as simple as a yeast, it seemed like there could be some missing steps. Essentially, when we knocked out this gene that I was working on, we found that there was another way to make NAD. That was through nicotinamide riboside. That's when we discovered NR as a vitamin and the nicotinamide riboside kinase pathway to NAD back in 2004.
You might read sometimes when read about NAD. Sometimes, they'll say NAD+, sometimes just NAD. There's actually four different coenzymes; NAD+, NADH, NADP, sometimes that's a plus, and NADPH. These coenzymes are essentially required for all the metabolic transformations that occur in every cell in every tissue
When you generate ROS, the reactive oxygen species have to be detoxified in a manner that depends on NADPH.
Since he said electrons, the difference between NAD+ and NADH basically has to do with electrons is that NAD+ is the hydride or electron carrier for all that fuel oxidation. NAD is the hydride-accepting coenzyme. When it's got those electrons, it's NADH. Then, that initiates the electron transfer chain. You can generate the
The gene pathway from tryptophan to NAD is basically inefficient
But there was one that was just published in, I think, the end of March of 2018. It was at one gram of NR per day. What was found is that the folks on trial who were prehypertensive meaning that their systolic blood pressure was between 120 and 139.9 so they were not medicated for hypertension, they got about a 10-millimeter of mercury benefit so a 10-point drop in their systolic blood pressure by being on this high-dose NR.
Electrons could go wild, they generate reactive oxygen species. They require NADPH to detoxify them. NADPH is also required to make things like estrogens and androgens. You really don't want your NADPH tied up in repair processes when you need it for biosynthetic processes.
Again, we have to engage small numbers of animals in order to do controlled experiments and figure out mechanisms of action. In a collaborative experiment with Eric Duplus group in Paris, we generated a model of excitotoxic brain injury. NMDA is a neurotransmitter. But a very high dose of NMDA will actually cause brain damage. We induced this type of excitotoxic brain damage and directly compared NAD and nicotinamide riboside. Nicotinamide riboside worked more than 15 times better than NAD.
Dave Asprey
That's a great way of explaining it. You need the building blocks. It's interesting that the studies on intravenous NAD show a bunch of effects on your pain reduction in the body and specifically for drug and alcohol addiction.
Charles Brenner
if you need it and then get out and get some bright sunlight in the morning. You want to reset with the bright sunlight and nicotinamide riboside in the morning on arrival. That would be the most evidence-based way to use this product.
It's even pre-symptomatic. Its NAD starts dropping. Its NAD is dropping. Its nicotinamide riboside kinase 2 gene is spiking up so that the gene pathway to convert NR into NAD is going up while the NAD is going down. What turns that on is something called a MP kinase.
You're actually going to need a precursor anyway. AMPK kinase activation will turn on the NRK pathway, but then, you need nicotinamide riboside to feed into that pathway in order to replenish the NAD.
Supplementing with something like Tru Niagen could potentially be an adjuvant
Matt Cook 512 https://blog.bulletproof.com/matt-cook-everything-you-need-to-know-about-stem-cells-512/ Stem cells
The stellate ganglion block is probably one of the most profound therapies and pain management that we have and is actually a technique that comes from anesthesia. And in the front of the neck there are basically two groups of nerves that control fight or flight and rest and relax. There's these little nerves that control your entire fight or flight nervous system and is called the sympathetic chain. And the basically control center of the sympathetic chain is something called the stellate ganglion it looks star shaped.
What we do is we take very powerful numbing medicine or local anesthetic and we put it into that plane and put the fight or flight nervous system completely to sleep for about four to six hours. That has a very profound effect of turning off flight or flight so that people can begin to feel what it's like to have rest and relax
But if you look physiologically, a lot of times when people have chronic pain, they have what's called neuropathic pain. So there are these small nerves that are unmyelinated C fibers, basically they carry chronic pain and they stay stuck in a chronic pain state. I palpate those nerves and I see if those nerves are in pain literally with the ultrasound. And a lot of times I can actually see that the nerves are dilated in a person with chronic pain. Interestingly if someone has chronic nerve pain and the nerves inflame and it's in pain, they'll just stay in pain because it's just stuck that way
When we go in and we come into that fascial and begin to open it up with fluid and put growth and healing factors and things like that, the current theory is that we begin to down regulate this pain fibers that are called TRPV1 receptor and we basically reset the nerve and interestingly when I treat people, I'll test them and I'll look at their muscle strength and then I'll do these procedures and then immediately their strength will begin to come back.
I also give them IV-NAD. Every nerve has mitochondria. I give them the NAD before I do the hydrodissection and the NAD lowers nerve pain.
Mike Dow 525 Brains/Hypnosis
https://blog.bulletproof.com/mike-dow-525/
So hypnosis, we know that from a brainwave point of view that hypnosis is usually mostly alpha waves.
But man, when I had my own brainwave scans, it just washes most of the brain in data waves which is slower and deeper than those alpha waves. And, man, you can feel it. You just fall so deep and it really is dream like. And you're sort of suspending yourself in that state of being awake and being asleep dreaming state.
I trained with the American Society which they'll only train people with a license
And as a child you're playing in that child like fantasy way. And by the way, that's because theta is that dominant brainwave frequency at that age.Then we become adults and our brainwaves tend to be more dominated by beta and alpha and faster brainwaves. A lot of adults just say, "Oh, well, I'm an adult now so I don't need to play anymore."
When we lose our playfulness, when we lose that space, that time to play, I think really bad things happen. I think human beings get very anxious. I think they lose their sense of creativity. So when you look at all of these movies and you see that there's this, and by the way I've treated many patients with stories like these, when you see the high powered attorney who figures out that he just really loves to play in a certain way with a dominatrix in sort of this role play, it's wow he gets to play pretend in a lot of ways.
But I think so many of us have an opportunity to actually optimize the brain with omega 3's, with methyl versions of B vitamins, with neuro feedback, and all of these things Hbot and Hyperbaric and all of these things that actually can help to grow the brain
So if you could just maybe do a mini hypnosis session and close your eyes and go down an elevator and find whatever that image is for you. And remember the subconscious really loves images and energies and it doesn't really like sort of this left hemisphere logic and thinking and words and sentences
There is something about this sort of metaphysical way of speaking especially when it comes to the subconscious brain that actually really works. And if you look at some of these mainstream journals, that it's outperforming prescription drugs and just these studies are blowing my mind. Especially when we're dealing with difficult to treat illusive conditions like chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia or IBS or these things that more and more Americans or autoimmune conditions, that more and more Americans are suffering with.
And of course alpha theta neurofeedback and hypnosis are both really suspending the brain in theta. And I would call both experiences, they're very similar in what they're doing in terms of brain waves. And I feel like I sometimes trip balls on it. And I feel like I feel high. I feel really good. And my basil ganglia, so that same part of the brain that lights up with cocaine, in a speck scan, that was lighting up like a fire cracker for me under hypnosis. So yeah.
https://blog.bulletproof.com/toxic-environment-impacting-sexy-brains-hormones-dr-lindsey-berkson-418/
Bruce Blumberg at the University of California named these endocrine disruptors that make our fat cells not work well and that's contributing to our obesity
You look so fantastic now. Testosterone according to Michael Baker whose one of my gurus who's made the hormones his whole entire life career, he's a scientist at the University of California, testosterone is the stabilizing hormone.
Dale Bredesen 522
https://blog.bulletproof.com/dale-bredesen-522/
Dave: You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. Today's cool fact of the day is that mental cues can alter your physiology. A psychologist named Robert Ader, from the Rochester School of Medicine
MCI, which is mild cognitive impairment, or SCI, which is subjective cognitive impairment.
If you have zero copies of ApoE four, then you have about a nine percent chance, during your lifetime, to develop Alzheimer's. If you have a single copy, it's about a 30% chance. And if you have two copies, it's over 50%
: So it so far would seem that having chronic ketosis seems to be a good thing for mentation, and seems to help you. However, as you know, over time you can develop essentially some resistance. You can lose the metabolic flexibility, the very metabolic flexibility you're trying to achieve. This is why, for many people, it is a good idea every once in a while. Whether you do it once every week, or once every two weeks, to cycle out of that briefly, to keep yourself metabolically flexible. That seems to work better
But, as a general rule, grains, whole grains have been used, as you know, they do have a nice effect because of the fiber, et cetera, and they do have some protein and things. But they do have potential damage and so we generally suggest to people, until you know more, stay away from grains and really focus on the vegetables, the low-glycemic fruit. You want to have a very high, both soluble and insoluble fiber. It helps your biome, it helps your absorption of any sort of carbohydrates, it is great for detoxing, so these are very, very helpful. In general, we suggest people stay away from grains.
Zach Bush 458 Healthy Biome
https://blog.bulletproof.com/eat-dirt-the-secret-to-a-healthy-microbiome-zach-bush-458/
Turns out that one of the more exciting developments that happened in my career was finding that there was some vitamin A compounds that were enabling these cancer cells to shut themselves down and commit suicide. The implications are pretty big because it means that suddenly, you don't need immune system to overcome cancer. That cancer simply eliminates itself when it realizes it's part of a larger organism.
This was at a turning point in the mid 2000s when we were starting to realize that the ATP, while real critical for being a fuel source, was not the eloquence of the mitochondria. The eloquence of the mitochondria is actually the metabolites or breakdown products that are produced on the way to ATP. These, as a family, have been come to recognized at redox molecules, which is contraction of reduction and oxidation. Reduction is the donation of an electron. Oxidation is the absorption of said electron. You put those together, you get a redox environment. You literally are creating a liquid circuit board where you've got electrical energy traveling through intracellular environments.
It's the quantum computer chips that are starting to come out. Super, super, super fast. One quantum computer chip, within about a year and a half, will be able to process as many calculations as all the computers on the entire planet. That's a super fast chip but it has to be in a very special environment. It has to be down near absolute zero. That's exactly like the mitochondria. They produce so much energy and so much information, some 10,000 times the power of the sun, some million fold faster than the information than we pass through our neurons in the brain. We're talking about each of these redox signaling molecules lasting a millionth of a second down to the cell level.
Yeah. At this stage, I hadn't realized at all and I think, as a field, there was no talk about how the bacteria were talking across this spectrum. At this point, redox molecules was really something that was regarded as a mitochondrial event inside the human cells. There was no concept of how the bacteria could possibly be talking inside the cells. However, there was some interesting rumblings coming from some of those crazy hippy doctors in California. UCSD, UCSF were starting to put out some papers on the microbiome genetics. They were starting look at the genomics of the microbiome. They were finding some remarkable correlations of if this bacteria present, then you're going to get this cancer. If these bacteria are missing, you're going to get this cancer. We were starting to see these correlations between microbiome genomics and human disease outcomes. That was complete poppycock, crazy stuff talking in our belief system around how cancer happened and what it was at a disease process and everything else
Yeah. We were people like crazy. We went on these high, intense combinations of short and long-term fasting with high-intensity, nutrient-dense diets. Very low protein. Protein tends to stress the liver and everything else. Low protein, high nutrient. Leave calories out of the equation and go for intense nutrient density. A lot of juicing, a lot of fermentation, a lot of stuff
. You get a cancer but the UCLA and UCSF guys are telling me that there's some correlation between bacteria in your gut and what cancer you're going to get
Within minutes of the bacterial communication network hitting those renal tubule cells, they start making extracellular matrix, starting combining tight junctions across them, going into three dimensional structures, gap junctions, which look like fiber optic cables, by the way, start connecting through there. You've got this cohesive membrane of kidney tissue in a Petri dish never seen before. Phenomenally powerful.
How does a plant create the phenols? The alkaloids are the most extraordinary story coming out of the plants. Plants don't have mitochondria as we do. They have these little plastid that look like mitochondria.
We're now going into realms that was really departing from any understanding of the biology I've been trained in. It was forcing us to ask questions we never ask. On page 40 of a white paper on dirt. It was 90-page white paper.
On page 40 is a huge molecule that on the right side of this, it was in two dimensions but my brain did something really fantastic at that moment. I think my purpose is here. This is why I was born. This is why I did ridiculous journey in academia was just for this moment. The blinders came off. The three-dimensional structure on the right side of that molecule looked like the chemotherapy that I'd been making years previous.
Yeah. It's another version of a soil extract. First came Shilajit, then humic acids, then fulvic acids. Shilajit is primarily a huge mineral density. You get a really potent mineral load. The problem with Shilajit is it's profoundly oxidative. Humic acid falls in the same category. Folic acid is all oxidative as well but has less of the oxidative stress that you get from something like Shilajit.
Electron potential is literally health. Disease is all positive charge absorption of electrons, loss of electron potential.
You can lose the enamel right off your teeth if you're constantly taking humic and Shilajit and things like that and you're doing oxidative damage to the kidneys
Dave Different mechanism, different structure and all that sort of stuff but it seems like a lot of these either ancient or the buckyballs are relatively new in terms of anti-aging to call them carbon 60 or C60 nanospheres.
Terrahydrite is the name of the stuff but the stuff you make is called Restore. That's the stuff that I'm assuming you're talking about.
When I see one of the C60 molecules, the first thing I think of is a laser chamber. I think that is very likely if there's benefit from C60 in the body, it's because it creates resonance chambers at the atomic physics level that's allowing you to stay in coherent vibration because we're not really made of molecules
Charles Brenner 491 NAD
https://blog.bulletproof.com/charles-brenner/
I was minding my own business working on an enzyme back in the early 2000s. The end product of this enzyme pathway was production of NAD, the central regulator of metabolism
There was a huge amount of interest in NAD arising just at that time because NAD is required for the function of sirtuins. Sirtuins are these longevity-promoting genes that are found in everything from yeast to human beings. Folks were starting to manipulate the NAD pathway to see if they could extend lifespan in something like a yeast cell.When I looked at the evidence basis for how NAD is made even in something as simple as a yeast, it seemed like there could be some missing steps. Essentially, when we knocked out this gene that I was working on, we found that there was another way to make NAD. That was through nicotinamide riboside. That's when we discovered NR as a vitamin and the nicotinamide riboside kinase pathway to NAD back in 2004.
You might read sometimes when read about NAD. Sometimes, they'll say NAD+, sometimes just NAD. There's actually four different coenzymes; NAD+, NADH, NADP, sometimes that's a plus, and NADPH. These coenzymes are essentially required for all the metabolic transformations that occur in every cell in every tissue
When you generate ROS, the reactive oxygen species have to be detoxified in a manner that depends on NADPH.
Since he said electrons, the difference between NAD+ and NADH basically has to do with electrons is that NAD+ is the hydride or electron carrier for all that fuel oxidation. NAD is the hydride-accepting coenzyme. When it's got those electrons, it's NADH. Then, that initiates the electron transfer chain. You can generate the
The gene pathway from tryptophan to NAD is basically inefficient
But there was one that was just published in, I think, the end of March of 2018. It was at one gram of NR per day. What was found is that the folks on trial who were prehypertensive meaning that their systolic blood pressure was between 120 and 139.9 so they were not medicated for hypertension, they got about a 10-millimeter of mercury benefit so a 10-point drop in their systolic blood pressure by being on this high-dose NR.
Electrons could go wild, they generate reactive oxygen species. They require NADPH to detoxify them. NADPH is also required to make things like estrogens and androgens. You really don't want your NADPH tied up in repair processes when you need it for biosynthetic processes.
Again, we have to engage small numbers of animals in order to do controlled experiments and figure out mechanisms of action. In a collaborative experiment with Eric Duplus group in Paris, we generated a model of excitotoxic brain injury. NMDA is a neurotransmitter. But a very high dose of NMDA will actually cause brain damage. We induced this type of excitotoxic brain damage and directly compared NAD and nicotinamide riboside. Nicotinamide riboside worked more than 15 times better than NAD.
Dave Asprey
That's a great way of explaining it. You need the building blocks. It's interesting that the studies on intravenous NAD show a bunch of effects on your pain reduction in the body and specifically for drug and alcohol addiction.
Charles Brenner
if you need it and then get out and get some bright sunlight in the morning. You want to reset with the bright sunlight and nicotinamide riboside in the morning on arrival. That would be the most evidence-based way to use this product.
It's even pre-symptomatic. Its NAD starts dropping. Its NAD is dropping. Its nicotinamide riboside kinase 2 gene is spiking up so that the gene pathway to convert NR into NAD is going up while the NAD is going down. What turns that on is something called a MP kinase.
You're actually going to need a precursor anyway. AMPK kinase activation will turn on the NRK pathway, but then, you need nicotinamide riboside to feed into that pathway in order to replenish the NAD.
Supplementing with something like Tru Niagen could potentially be an adjuvant
Matt Cook 512 https://blog.bulletproof.com/matt-cook-everything-you-need-to-know-about-stem-cells-512/ Stem cells
The stellate ganglion block is probably one of the most profound therapies and pain management that we have and is actually a technique that comes from anesthesia. And in the front of the neck there are basically two groups of nerves that control fight or flight and rest and relax. There's these little nerves that control your entire fight or flight nervous system and is called the sympathetic chain. And the basically control center of the sympathetic chain is something called the stellate ganglion it looks star shaped.
What we do is we take very powerful numbing medicine or local anesthetic and we put it into that plane and put the fight or flight nervous system completely to sleep for about four to six hours. That has a very profound effect of turning off flight or flight so that people can begin to feel what it's like to have rest and relax
But if you look physiologically, a lot of times when people have chronic pain, they have what's called neuropathic pain. So there are these small nerves that are unmyelinated C fibers, basically they carry chronic pain and they stay stuck in a chronic pain state. I palpate those nerves and I see if those nerves are in pain literally with the ultrasound. And a lot of times I can actually see that the nerves are dilated in a person with chronic pain. Interestingly if someone has chronic nerve pain and the nerves inflame and it's in pain, they'll just stay in pain because it's just stuck that way
When we go in and we come into that fascial and begin to open it up with fluid and put growth and healing factors and things like that, the current theory is that we begin to down regulate this pain fibers that are called TRPV1 receptor and we basically reset the nerve and interestingly when I treat people, I'll test them and I'll look at their muscle strength and then I'll do these procedures and then immediately their strength will begin to come back.
I also give them IV-NAD. Every nerve has mitochondria. I give them the NAD before I do the hydrodissection and the NAD lowers nerve pain.
Mike Dow 525 Brains/Hypnosis
https://blog.bulletproof.com/mike-dow-525/
So hypnosis, we know that from a brainwave point of view that hypnosis is usually mostly alpha waves.
But man, when I had my own brainwave scans, it just washes most of the brain in data waves which is slower and deeper than those alpha waves. And, man, you can feel it. You just fall so deep and it really is dream like. And you're sort of suspending yourself in that state of being awake and being asleep dreaming state.
I trained with the American Society which they'll only train people with a license
And as a child you're playing in that child like fantasy way. And by the way, that's because theta is that dominant brainwave frequency at that age.Then we become adults and our brainwaves tend to be more dominated by beta and alpha and faster brainwaves. A lot of adults just say, "Oh, well, I'm an adult now so I don't need to play anymore."
When we lose our playfulness, when we lose that space, that time to play, I think really bad things happen. I think human beings get very anxious. I think they lose their sense of creativity. So when you look at all of these movies and you see that there's this, and by the way I've treated many patients with stories like these, when you see the high powered attorney who figures out that he just really loves to play in a certain way with a dominatrix in sort of this role play, it's wow he gets to play pretend in a lot of ways.
But I think so many of us have an opportunity to actually optimize the brain with omega 3's, with methyl versions of B vitamins, with neuro feedback, and all of these things Hbot and Hyperbaric and all of these things that actually can help to grow the brain
So if you could just maybe do a mini hypnosis session and close your eyes and go down an elevator and find whatever that image is for you. And remember the subconscious really loves images and energies and it doesn't really like sort of this left hemisphere logic and thinking and words and sentences
There is something about this sort of metaphysical way of speaking especially when it comes to the subconscious brain that actually really works. And if you look at some of these mainstream journals, that it's outperforming prescription drugs and just these studies are blowing my mind. Especially when we're dealing with difficult to treat illusive conditions like chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia or IBS or these things that more and more Americans or autoimmune conditions, that more and more Americans are suffering with.
And of course alpha theta neurofeedback and hypnosis are both really suspending the brain in theta. And I would call both experiences, they're very similar in what they're doing in terms of brain waves. And I feel like I sometimes trip balls on it. And I feel like I feel high. I feel really good. And my basil ganglia, so that same part of the brain that lights up with cocaine, in a speck scan, that was lighting up like a fire cracker for me under hypnosis. So yeah.