210. Gary Brecka Live At The Healf Experience 2025 In London: Hydrogen Water and Amino Acids

Summary

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
Episode 210: Gary Brecka Live at The Healf Experience 2025 In London – Hydrogen Water and Amino Acids
Date: October 16, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this special live episode, human biologist and longevity expert Gary Brecka (supported by guests Dr. Shawn Baker and Dr. Justin Marchegiani) takes the stage at The Healf Experience 2025 in London. He delivers a data-driven, down-to-earth breakdown of two often misunderstood health tools: hydrogen water and essential amino acids. Through humor, science, and hard-earned wisdom, Brecka unveils why these seemingly simple concepts have profound impacts on health, longevity, and performance. The episode blends research, big data, and practical advice to empower listeners to “cover the basics” and move beyond health fads.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Limitations of Traditional Clinical Research & Value of Big Data

• Opening Critique of US Healthcare: Despite 276,000 peer-reviewed clinical trials, the US remains at the top for diseases like type 2 diabetes and obesity (00:00, Dr. Shawn Baker).
• Big Data vs. RCTs: Brecka criticizes overreliance on randomized controlled trials when real-world “big data” can overturn conventional wisdom years later.
  • “There were 371 million lives in the database that I had access to. If that database could ever see the light of day, it would permanently change the face of humanity.” (04:23)
  • Advocates for using AI and big data for true actionable results and revolutionary advancement in medicine.

2. Hydrogen Water: The Selective Antioxidant

• Why Hydrogen Gas Matters: As the smallest, most prevalent element in the universe (accounts for 10% of body weight), hydrogen is essential and its absence causes loss of key gut bacteria.
• Clinical Evidence: Cites a 2021 Journal of Experimental Gerontology study: elderly subjects drinking hydrogen-infused water showed improved methylation, cognition, coordination, and memory (11:17).
• Redox Homeostasis, Not Just Anti-Inflammation:
  • “We started massive high dose vitamin C infusions ... and we found that the polar opposite was true. ... We suppressed oxidation too much.” (19:17)
  • Hydrogen, uniquely, restores the perfect balance between oxidation and inflammation without overshooting—targeting only the damaging hydroxyl radical while leaving beneficial oxidants intact via the NRF2 pathway (23:46).
  • “You can't overdo it with hydrogen gas, you can't underdo it… it restores perfect redox homeostasis.” (24:21)
• Performance Benefits: Used by elite athletes—including UFC fighters—for faster recovery, improved performance, and cognitive gains (26:03).
• Hydrogen Water and Satiety: Hydrogen-enriched water increases the release of GLP1, a gut hormone that increases satiety and counters processed food overconsumption (29:20).

3. Amino Acids & Essential Nutrients: The Unsexy Foundations for Health

• Human Deficiencies: The three greatest global deficiencies are vitamin D3, minerals, and amino acids (12:13).
• On Essentials: “There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. ... Essential means they are necessary for life.” (12:59)
• Forget BCAAs—All Nine Are Needed:
  • “Branched chain amino acids are just sugar water, right? ... Leucine, isolucine and valine on their own will not build muscle. You need all nine of the essential amino acids…” (34:00)
• Perfect Amino Rationale: Praises Dr. David Minkoff’s product for delivering a complete, highly bioavailable amino acid profile (no calories, doesn’t break a fast) that efficiently supports muscle, tissue, and immune health.
• Protein vs. Amino Acids: “Protein is actually useless in the human body. All protein becomes the same thing....Amino acids are the building blocks of life.” (30:14; 30:45)
• Soil Depletion and Modern Diet: Modern farming depletes soil; even organic food often lacks essential minerals. Supplementation is increasingly important (34:44).

4. Practical “Ultimate Human” Morning Routine

• Put It All Together:
  • 9 essential amino acids
  • 91 trace minerals (from unprocessed sea salt, e.g. Baja salt)
  • Hydrogen water (using a magnesium tablet to generate 12 ppm hydrogen in water)
  • “That jolt of energy you feel is not stimulation, it is the lack of inflammation.” (25:16)
• Cost: About $3/day for this foundation.
• Genetic Methylation Testing: Recommends testing at least once to guide supplementation based on genetic efficiency (e.g. MTHFR mutation and methylfolate requirements).
• Kids & Personalized Health: Early testing for children can enhance lifelong health outcomes (14:18).

5. Processed Foods, Satiety, and Addiction

• GLP-1 & Appetite: Processed foods are engineered to block GLP1 response, promoting overeating, whereas hydrogen water can naturally increase satiety hormones (27:18).
• Artificial Sweeteners: 85% of the ingredients serve to trigger dopamine (reward), not taste—driving addiction rather than nutritional need (28:16).

6. Bone Health: Minerals, Not Just Calcium

• Bone Strength Misconceptions: Most "weak bones" are from mineral—not calcium—deficiency. Strong bones and teeth require 12 minerals to form hydroxyapatite (40:05).
• Mineral Deficiency & Softening: “It's causing the demineralization of bones... and it makes soft skin.” (41:01)

7. The Innate Wisdom of the Human Body

• Critique of Isolation Medicine: Cellular and community health can’t be understood by single-cell studies in labs—real world, holistic function is key (38:36).
• Immune System and Pandemic Measures: Criticizes excessive quarantining and masking during COVID-19 as it weakened natural immunity by limiting exposure (36:51).

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Audience Q&A

Q1: Brain Tumor & Radiation – Healing Support For Children (43:11)

• Brecka Recommends:
  • Genetic methylation testing (tailor supplementation)
  • Transcranial red light therapy (neuroregeneration post-radiation)
  • Modern red light helmets (Neuronic/Weber brands) for safe, daily use
  • “Any symptomology he has right now, he can grow out of.” (43:30)

Q2: Osteopenia & Hormone Replacement Therapy (45:26)

• Brecka’s Take:
  • Positive about HRT, but 70% of patients just need precursor nutrients (esp. DHEA, vitamin D3) rather than hormones.
  • Encourages gold-standard Dutch testing (not just bloodwork) to guide therapy—treat hormone ratios, not just levels.
  • Latest studies have debunked the link between estrogen HRT and breast cancer (48:41).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Limits of RCTs:
  • “We’ve never done a randomized clinical trial on parachutes. Would anybody jump out of an airplane without one?” (03:23)
• On Hydrogen as a Selective Antioxidant:
  • “Hydrogen gas is the only selective antioxidant on the surface of mother Earth that I have ever found that has the profound impact coming from a single molecule.” (19:39)
• On Health Fads vs. Foundations:
  • “We are not going to find longevity in a stem cell, in an exosome, in a red light therapy bed...We are going to find it in the basics.” (16:21)
• On Supplement Marketing:
  • “I don't put products on my platform just to get an affiliate link and push them out... They have to have a rationale for me to use them every day in my daily life.” (32:05)
• On Pandemic Policies:
  • “The worst thing to ever happen to humanity during the pandemic… was residential quarantining, masking and social distancing. Those actually crushed the immune profile of the planet.” (36:51)
• On Processed Foods:
  • “Processed foods are designed to circumvent human physiology.” (27:52)
• On Essential Carbs:
  • “There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. Can we just marinate on that for a second?” (12:59)
• On Personalized Health:
  • “No two human beings are exactly the same. The mass adoption of things for a population is another very dangerous thing that we do in medicine.” (41:31)

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Recommended Morning Protocol (41:38)

1. Hydrate: 8 oz water
2. Add:
   • All 9 essential amino acids
   • All 91 trace minerals (e.g., Baja sea salt)
   • 1 hydrogen water tablet (dissolve, drink immediately for energy and anti-inflammation)

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Key Timestamps

• [00:00] – US clinical research failings, big data intro
• [06:46] – Why amino acids, minerals, and hydrogen water?
• [11:17] – Hydrogen water clinical study, markers, and cognition
• [19:22] – Redox homeostasis, antioxidant theory history
• [24:21] – Hydrogen’s mechanism: NRF2 and redox homeostasis
• [26:03] – Hydrogen water for athletic and cognitive performance
• [29:28] – Hydrogen water boosts GLP1 response and satiety
• [30:14] – Protein vs. amino acids, Perfect Aminos rationale
• [34:44] – Soil depletion and necessity of supplementation
• [36:51] – Pandemic immunity harm, innate immunity value
• [40:13] – Bone health: hydroxyapatite and mineral needs
• [43:11] – Q&A: Brain tumor, methylation, red light therapy
• [45:26] – Q&A: Osteopenia, HRT, hormone testing
• [49:51] – Closing remarks and live samples

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Final Thoughts

Gary Brecka’s live session distills decades of scientific research, intuition, and big-data pattern recognition into an accessible playbook for optimizing human health. Skip the distractions and biohacking fads—“cover the basics”: test for your deficiencies, supplement accordingly, and let nature’s wisdom (not pharma’s marketing) guide the path to becoming the ultimate human.

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To try for yourself: Go back to the basics—test, supplement for your needs, and make sure every morning starts with hydration, all essential aminos, full trace minerals, and hydrogen. (And maybe enjoy a ribeye, like Mrs. Brecka.)

Transcript

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

We've done 276,000 clinical trials the United States. It's the sickest, fattest, most disease ridden nation in the world.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

As we age, we are slowly micropoisoning ourselves to death. That's where the miracle of hydrogen gas comes into play. It is the only selective antioxidant on the surface of mother Earth that I have ever found that has profound impact. This is such a phenomenal gas in the human body and perform performance happens when we restore redox homeostasis, not when we just crush inflammation. If we didn't have the inflammatory process, none of us would ever heal from injury. The reason why I start every morning with all nine of the essential amino acids, all 91 essential minerals and hydrogen gas is because the big data tells us that that is the baseline for human optimization.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

What is fascinating about my discovery as.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I've unlocked the power of hydrogen and hydrogen gas in the human body. Ultimate Human.

[Podcast Host]

Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Today's episode is a special one recorded live from the health experience in London. I took the stage to break down one of the most misunderstood topics in health. Hydrogen water and how hydrogen tablets can improve your energy, inflammation and recovery. I also dove deep into the science of amino acids, what they actually do in your body, and why they're essential for rebuilding every single cell you have. If you've ever been skeptical, confused, or just wanted to understand the data on hydrogen tablets, this episode will give you the full picture. So whether you're new to hydrogen tablets or already using them, this talk will help you connect the dots and take your performance to the next level. Let's get into it.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Hey guys, how we doing, guys? Welcome, London, awesome. Thank you guys for coming into the ultimate human experience. You know, we curated this experience for a reason, you know, because probably the most often asked question that I get is, you know, what is your morning routine? What do you supplement with? And without sounding like I'm trying to sell you a bunch of supplements, you know, I just give you an honest answer. You know, if you look at the data, big data, you know, very often I think in the United States, we get bogged down in the gold standard of science, which is the peer reviewed, published, randomized placebo controlled clinical trial. But the truth is that in the United States, for example, we've done 276,000 peer reviewed, published, randomized, placebo controlled clinical trials. And we've done this in all kinds of areas of science and all kinds of areas of medicine. And if you look at the outcome, outcomes of the vast Majority of those sciences, it's, it's led to the sickest, fattest, most disease ridden nation in the world. You know, the United States leads the world in, in five things. Infant mortality, maternal mortality, type 2 diabetes, multiple chronic disease in a single biome, and morbid obesity. And a lot of times, yes, randomized, peer reviewed, published clinical trials that are placebo controlled are incredible for getting accurate.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Answers to certain hypotheses.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

But we have at Big data, for example, we've never done a randomized clinical trial on parachutes. Would anybody jump out of an airplane without one? We've never had a placebo group and a control group said, okay, you guys are going to jump out with a hope and a prayer, right? You're very religious and connected to God and you guys are going to have a parachute and we're going to just see what happens, you know, so very often the challenge with this is we, we take the same data and try to apply it to new knowledge and new thinking. Artificial intelligence, in my opinion, is going to revolutionize the world because artificial intelligence can take 700 trillion independent variables and.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

It can create an actionable result.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And big data is about to circumvent the entire system. It is about to upend modern medicine in a way that's going to be catastrophic.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Catastrophic in a great way.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And I noticed this and knew this for years and years and years as I was a mortality expert, because we.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Had access to large Data.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

There were 371 million lives in the.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Database that I had access to.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And you've heard me say this all the time. If that database could ever see the light of day, it would permanently change.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The face of humanity.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And the reason why that database would change the face of humanity is because that database had the day, the date, the time, the location, and the cause of death for 371 million lives. It did not care what was in the randomized clinical trial. It did not care what big Pharma said about lowering LDL cholesterol and reducing cardiovascular disease. It actually looked at big Data. And for two decades I was like, this is all wrong. I'm not saying all of those studies are wrong.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

And I'm not saying that science shouldn't be peer reviewed and published and we.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Shouldn'T do them in controlled trials. But very often we get so myopic in our thinking because the outcome of a certain trial says this. And that now becomes the gold standard. And then years later, we realized we.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Made a massive mistake.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And we've done this with everything from.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

SSRI Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, to statins.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

To cardiovascular medication, to psychiatric therapy, to all kinds of areas where the data.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Flies in the face of what the outcomes truly are.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And sadly, this cycle takes 10 years.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Or 20 years and we realize that we made a mistake.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

The entire globe was a part of the largest genomic experience that we've ever conducted on humanity. I don't want to divide this audience.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

In half and start out by attacking vaccines, because I'm not attacking vaccines.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

But the peer reviewed, published, randomized clinical data that was placebo controlled said there was no risk outside of this trial, the risk was very marginal. But we actually had never done an experiment where we put messenger ribonucleic acid into the bodies of millions and millions of people. And now we sort of remember the, the acronym FAFO where we're in the.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

We'Re in the O part right now.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

We're in the find out part, right? And so what I want to talk about today is, you know, what is, what is, what is my morning routine and what, what data do I have to support that morning routine? Why am I such a huge fan of all nine of the essential amino acids? Why am I such a fan of mineralizing the body? Why am I such a big fan of hydrogen water? What do those do in the human body? What's the data say? And what does the big, big data.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Say about these things?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And, and so if we start with what I think is one of the greatest discoveries of our millennia, it's not just those specific hydrogen tablets.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

These are the tablets that I take because they create 12 parts per million hydrogen gas.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

But what does the data say about.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Hydrogen in human beings?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

What does the data say about how.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Evolutionarily we've gotten further and further and further away from this valuable gas? And when we put this gas back into our bodies, we, what does it do?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Why do we need it? Why were rivers and streams so fraught with hydrogen gas? Why did we used to have so.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Much hydrogen gas in our gut that fed hydrophiles and now we have entire classes of bacteria that are gone from our gut because we're missing this valuable.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Nutrient, the lightest, most prevalent element in the entire universe. 10% of the body weight of everybody.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

In this room is hydrogen.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And something as simple as this valuable.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Gas has miraculous impact in the human body.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So let's look at what the randomized.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Peer reviewed, published clinical trials say that.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Are done in a placebo controlled environment. So I don't offend the big science nerds. But then we're going to talk about.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

What the real big data says.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So if you're a fan of the science. Oh, well, you guys don't get to.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

See that this guy's over here. You just get to look at this massive whiteboard.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

But I'll tell you what's on the.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Other side of this board.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

If you had paid for the VIP ticket, you could actually see, could see my whole presentation. But there are so many impacts that this, this phenomenal, phenomenal gas this molecule.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Has in the human body.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Again, the smallest, lightest element in the.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Universe, which means it can go anywhere in our body. It can't be toxic to your body because 10% of your body weight is actually made up of this molecule.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And what is fascinating about my discovery.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

As I've unlocked the power of hydrogen and hydrogen gas in the human body.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Is, you know, when you look at the studies, when they look at its targeted effect on certain outcomes, like a 2001 study found that breathing high pressure.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Hydrogen gas could cure parasite induced liver inflammation.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Hydrogen gas administration decreased the expression of different oxidative stress markers. These are markers of oxidation in the human body. And we know that oxidation is what happens in our cellular membranes, when our.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Cellular membranes rust, sort of a term for rusting inside the human body.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

We also know that aging is a progressive decline in mitochondrial function. You know, yesterday I talked about how one of the most fascinating questions I.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Was ever asked was, Gary, if you put all of the top experts in the world, the leading experts on aging.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

On, on bio optimization, on longevity, all.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The PhDs, the MDs, the researchers, and.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You got them to agree on one.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Theory of aging, what would that be? And I said, it's a really hard.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Question, but I think we would all.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Agree on the theory of immuno fatigue, a slow, progressive overwhelming of the immune system. As we age, we are slowly micropoisoning ourselves to death. And our immune system has gone from spending the vast majority of its time policing us, not protecting us, policing our.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Own cellular physiology, looking for senescent cells, cells that have hung around too long.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

In your bloodstream, that can no longer perform their function. Everybody in this room has a certain percentage of senescent cells in your body.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

These are red blood cells that are.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Alive, but they can no longer carry oxygen.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

They are platelets that are living, but.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

They can no longer carry growth factors.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

They're white blood cells that are circulating around in your plasma right now, but.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

They can no longer amount an immune system defense. So they're useless.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

They're lazy employees sitting on the payroll.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Of your company not doing their job.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And I'm going to teach you how.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

We can fire those employees and put people in their seat that can actually.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Perform their function right, the immune system actually eats them. So we don't eat employees that are lazy.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

And maybe you do that in the.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

UK you have this thing called redundancy. You can't even fire anybody, no matter.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

How little they work.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

I mean, you guys got the whole equation, screwed it up. At least we fire you in the US so the immune system wouldn't fire you, we would just eat you. You know, so we're, we're cannibals. So the big data, you know, has more to say than even what the peer reviewed research says. What I find fascinating about hydrogen too is that when you, when you look.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

At the studies of hydrogen gas in the human body and its implication, and.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

This was a really interesting study done.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

In the Journal of Experimental Gerontology published back In November of 2021, what I.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Found fascinating about this study was that they used a control group for six.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Months that drank hydrogen infused water and a control group that drank just regular non hydrogen infused water.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And they measured an entire, one of.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The best controlled studies I've ever read.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And they used an entire control group. And what they did was they used.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Something called a Tet 2 marker of methylation.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Now you know that I am a.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Huge fan of methylation.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You know, I've, I've dedicated the entire.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Balance of my adult lifetime to the study of genetic methylation because I believe that the foundation of human function, longevity, wellness, anti aging is that our bodies must have the raw material that they need to do their job.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And I will tell you, the three.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Greatest deficiencies in human beings worldwide are vitamin D3 minerals and amino acids.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And when you become deficient in any one of these three things, the consequences.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Are severe and they are long lasting and they are impactful.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And we rarely trace disease and pathology.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

And dysfunction back to the actual missing nutrient.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

If we just started with the basics.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

There are nine essential amino acids. Essential means they are necessary for life.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

There are 91 essential minerals, which means.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

They are necessary for life.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

There are two essential fatty acids, which.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Means they are necessary for life.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So if you don't get those three.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You will eventually die.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. Can we just marinate on that for a second? She almost threw up. Do you mean my croissant is not necessary for life? No, your chocolate is. Yeah, chocolate's the fourth necessary for life. So we, you Know, I think very often in, in, especially in environments like.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

This, you know, health conferences like this, we can just get paralysis of analysis.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Walking around and, and we can make an argument for nearly every nutrient or every recovery tool.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

But the question is, what does our body really need?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So I'm a deep believer that every.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Human being at least once in your lifetime needs to do a genetic methylation test. The reason why I believe so deeply in that is that that test will tell your body exactly what you are deficient in.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And that deficiency will never change if you have the MTHFR gene mutation. There will never be a time in your life where you can take folate or methyl folate and make the nutrient.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Your body needs called or folate or folic acid and make the nutrient your body needs called methylfolate. So you have to supplement with methylfolate.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

If you don't, you will bear the.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Consequences of being nutrient deficient in that arena.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Your genetics will tell you what your.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Body can convert into the usable form and what it cannot. I think it is the most valuable piece of information. I think it is the foundation of.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Where everyone needs to begin their health journey. And I think for those of you that have children, the earlier you start.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Them on this journey and stick that cheek swab in their mouth and find out what their little body is deficient in, the more fruitful their entire life will be.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So if the foundation is genetic methylation, we test ourselves. We find out what our body can convert into the usable form and what it can't. And now we have supplemented with the basics. We have given our body the methylfolate.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The academy or the trimethylglycine, what our body needs to perform at its, at its best.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Now we go to what should we be supplementing with and why? And again, we just have to get.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Back to the basics.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

I am a big believer in all things Resveratrol and CoQ 10 and St.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

John's Wort and Ashwagandha and NMN and nicotinamide riboside, and on and on and on.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

But before we go down that myriad.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

That, that maze of possibilities, we have to cover the basics. If you don't have the nine essential amino acids, if you don't have 91 essential minerals, if you don't have two essential fatty acids, and if you are not reducing inflammation and improving circulation, you are missing everything. It's like when people tell me, where should I start on my wellness journey? Like, what should I be doing to optimize function? I always talk about sleep, whole food and Movement.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And the big data proves this.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The blue zone studies have proved this.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

That people that are living beyond age.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

100 have two things in common. Mobility into later in life, sense of community and purpose, and the absence of processed foods. They eat a whole food diet. They cover the basics I'm going to talk about today. And they, and they move and they have a sense of community and a sense of purpose. So we know that those are irreplaceable. We are not going to find longevity in a stem cell, in an exosome, in a red light therapy bed, in a frequency modality. We are going to find it in the basics.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And so this was a fascinating study.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Because it looked at a geriatric population and a lot of randomized clinical trials are done on the healthiest of populations. And then we extrapolate what happens in the healthiest of population to the mass of populations.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

What's fascinating about this study is they.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Did it in the elderly population, which easily translates to the masses. Ultimate athletes don't very often translate to the masses, but the elderly is a great place for us to start.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

They used what was called a tattoo.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Marker of methylation to measure their methylation. They measured sit stand ratios, they did measurements of cognitive function, short term recall.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Hand eye coordination, speed, timing, agility, long.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Term recall, learned memory, focus, concentration, and across the board, all of those metrics improved simply by adding hydrogen gas to their routine.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And this was something that evolutionarily was.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Very, very prevalent in our air, it was prevalent in our streams, it was prevalent in our food and was much more prevalent in our, our diet.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

They use this therapeutic molecule to regulate.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Oxidative stress and inflammation and apoptosis, cellular death.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

But here's, here's where the rubber really meets the road.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I'm going to get sciency just for a second.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

I talked briefly about this yesterday, but in our body we know that we.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Have oxidative stressors, right?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Things that create oxidation. When you say something is an antioxidant.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

What does that mean? Can anyone define an antioxidant for me?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

What is has electrons to give.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

It has electrons to give. Wow. Have you been following me on Instagram studying biomedicine? Oh, you're studying biomedicine. You're a very smart woman. Yes.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

It means that it donates electrons.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Right?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So when we say blueberries are antioxidants. Yes, they are. Why are they an antioxidant? Because they donate electrons. When you donate electrons to something that.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Is causing oxidative stress, you neutralize that stress.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So 50 years ago, we took this theory too far and we developed the antioxidant theory of aging. We said, oh, we're aging because we have too much oxidation. And so the more antioxidants we put into the body, the less oxidation we'll have and the longer we'll live. And we found that the polar opposite was true. We started massive high dose vitamin C infusions and we started massive doses of antioxidants in the sick and the elderly. And associated especially the one of the largest oncology studies ever performed was studied by reducing the oxidative stress in patients with cancer to try to help their body cope with cancer. And we found that it turned cancer into turbo cancers because we suppressed oxidation too much. So what we want in human beings is not to reduce oxidation too much. What we want is something that is called redox homeostasis. It is a fancy word for a.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Perfect balance between oxidation and inflammation.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And actually putting those into balance. The question is, how do you know.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

When you are taking a supplement or you're laying in a red light bed or you're exercising? How do you know when it's too much and when it's the right amount? That's where the miracle of hydrogen gas comes into play.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

It is the only selective antioxidant on.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The surface of mother Earth that I have ever found that has the profound impact coming from a single molecule.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And the reason for that is this. We can use the innate intelligence of the human body.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

If I was to take a cell.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And go inside of a cell and.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I was to find the DNA, I.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Mean to find the nucleus, inside of.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The nucleus of the cell is the DNA. And if you can't tell, I am not an artist, I'm a scientist.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So please forgive my drawings. So inside the cell is the nucleus with the DNA, the DNA is running the show. You have 110 trillion of these inside of your cells. And the DNA is actually not just.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Making a copy of itself called replication. The DNA also is writing instructions into the cell. By the way, this is where we screwed up with the vaccine because we stole the notepad from the DNA, its messages that it writes into the cell called messenger ribonucleic acid mRNA. And we made a synthetic copy of that and we said, great. We were actually able to take a.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Message from the DNA that it's sending into the cell. We are able to capture that message. We were able to copy it synthetically. We were able to put it into a pharmaceutical and inject it into the mass population. Only the thing that we didn't realize was the body's intelligence at writing these.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Messages has that message degrade.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So if I was the DNA and.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You guys were all cell minions, I would be standing up here writing instructions to you, telling you what to do. You go make this protein, you throw this nutrient out, you bring this nutrient in, you make the spike protein.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And I would continue to write these messages.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Messenger RNA into the cell.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And as you conducted that task, when.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You came back to your desk, that task would degrade. It would be gone when we synthetically copied that message. The synthetic message never degrades. So we can pick up mRNA, synthetic MRNA in the urine of vaccinated patients. Three years after a vaccination, the signal never turns off with hydrogen. It's very, very different. It controls this signal in a very unique way.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So inside of the DNA we have this messenger. Outside of the cell, we have all of this oxidative stress going on. We have an oxygen molecule, what's called an oxygen singlet.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Oxygen.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

That's really good for human beings, right?

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Of course it is.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Until there's too much that creates oxidative stress. If you're getting in a hyperbaric chamber, you have to be taking hydrogen enriched.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Water either prior to getting in or, or prior to getting or immediately upon.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Getting out, or you have no idea how much additional oxidative stress you have.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Put on your body.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You're flooding the blood with oxygen under pressure, forcing oxygen into the cell membrane.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Into an area called the phospholipid bilayer.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And if there's too much, it will rust.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The phospholipid bilayer. Yes, you might feel better, but if you don't reduce that oxidation, you could be doing more damage with hyperbarics than you are intentionally doing. If you use hydrogen gas after a hyperbaric session, you get a perfect union of oxidative stress.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So you have oxygen singlets. Great. Until there's too much. You have something called superoxide. Have you guys heard of that? In the human body, superoxide is in. Isn't is excellent for human beings until there's too much. We have hydrogen peroxide.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

All of us have this in our bloodstream and circulating around our cells.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Very beneficial for human beings. Until there's too much. There is one oxidative free radical that.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

There is no known benefit for in human beings. And that is called the hydroxyl free radical.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So what if there was a way for us to go into all of these oxidative stressors and not push them down too much, but just to return them to homeostasis and when they got right down to the perfect level, stop lowering them. And if we found a hydroxyl free radical to neutralize it, because there's no known benefit. And so we reduce that stress and restore homeostasis.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

That is what hydrogen gas does in the human body.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

It uses a pathway to the DNA called the NRF2 pathway. And that might not mean anything to anybody in this room, but what this pathway does is when you come in the door to the DNA through the NRF2 pathway, you are telling the DNA I want you to be in control.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Of the next sequence of operations.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And so what hydrogen does is it influences this pathway, it enters the cell, it influences the DNA to restore all.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Of this oxidative stress back to balance.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

It restores perfect redox homeostasis.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You can't overdo it with hydrogen gas, you can't underdo it with hydrogen gas.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So simply by taking an elemental magnesium.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Tablet, and by the way, you can.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Leave it with it for free today, you can sample it back there and.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You can take one of those packages, take it home for yourself.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And instead of doing anything different with your morning routine tomorrow, I want you.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

To take a glass of water, an eight ounce glass of water.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You can pick up all of these for free.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

While you're here, I want you to.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Put all nine of the essential amino.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Acids into that water.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

I want you to add all 91.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Trace minerals with a mineral salt that is mined in the Baja peninsula of Mexico.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And I want you to drop a.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Hydrogen water tablet in there.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

When that hydrogen water tablet dissolves and.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You have 12 part per million hydrogen gas, I want you to drink that water back and just see how the lights come on.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

That is inflammation and oxidation returning to balance. That jolt of energy you feel is.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Not stimulation, it is the lack of inflammation.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And so you go through this pathway and you reduce all of these oxidative.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Stressors back to normal.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Hydrogen gas is, is the only selective.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Antioxidant that we know of that does exactly that through the NRF2 pathway. This is why you see it improving athletic performance in athletes.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You see it improving cognitive function in the elderly.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You see it deepening the waves of sleep, REM and deep sleep in the average population.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

This is why you see improved athletic performance, because recovery is enhanced by because.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Of the delayed onset muscle soreness is reduced.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

This is why you see cognitive function improve hand, eye coordination, speed, timing and agility. You know, I manage six of the.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Top 10 UFC fighters in the world. Every single one of them I have taking hydrogen Gas. Every professional athlete that I work with is taking hydrogen gas because this is such a phenomenal gas in the human body. And performance happens when we restore redox homeostasis, not when we just crush inflammation.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

If we didn't have the inflammatory process.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

None of us would ever heal from injury.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Right, so, so I wanted to just give you that little bit of background so you didn't think I was just.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Pushing hydrogen water to push hydrogen water.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

It is a phenomenal, it's a miracle.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Molecule in the human body.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And you're more than welcome to read these studies.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I mean the big data is even more in support of what several weeks of hydrogen consumption can do.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

By the way, this, this study was actually done comparing the effect of GLP1s. By the way, do you know that most people just heard of GLP1s when Ozempic came out? GLP1 is, is a hormone that's released.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

In the gut in response to nutrient density.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

This is why when we eat whole.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Foods, we get full faster.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

When we eat nutrient deprived foods like.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Highly processed foods, we get hungrier faster.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Because these, these highly processed foods are specifically engineered, by the way. Big Pharma and Big Food have known this for decades. There are entire research labs that are designed to do nothing more than circumvent your response to GLP1 to allow you to take in high amounts of calories and secrete zero GLP1. Because if I can get you to take in a thousand calories and have no GLP one response, I can get.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You to take in another thousand calories.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And if you have no GLP response.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I can get you to take in another thousand calories.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Their advertising is right.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You can't eat just one. Right?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Was. Who is that lays potato chips?

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Yeah.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

At least they came out and admitted it.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Right?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

They didn't just tell you that we researched this so you'd eat the whole freaking bag. Right. And so processed foods are designed to circumvent human physiology. You know the research on artificial sweeteners, the vast majority on our of, of.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The research on artificial sweeteners, in fact about 85 of the chemical composition of an artificial sweetener is actually not designed to taste sweet. You know, it's designed to do ding.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

The dopamine receptor, it's called the RF1A2 receptor.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

It's on the back of the tongue.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And it actually gives you a dopamine.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Reward for taking in an artificial sweetener.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You ever known somebody that's been addicted.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

To diet soda, for example?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Why are they addicted to diet Sodas, not because it tastes amazing. It's because that aspartame was hammering the, the RF1A2 receptor. They were getting a dopamine ding.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

A dopamine reward every time they drank that. This is why whole foods is the secret to longevity.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

This is why all of the blue.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Zones had the absence of processed foods, not the presence of a dogmatic diet.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

It wasn't a carnivore diet that extended life. It wasn't the Paleo diet, it wasn't raw foods, it wasn't keto, it wasn't paleo, it wasn't pescatarian, wasn't vegan, wasn't.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Vegetarian, it was whole foods. Right, because they work with your cellular biology.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

When they actually looked at GLP1 studies.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The release of GLP1 in the gut.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And all they did was add hydrogen rich water to a meal, you secreted.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Significantly more GLP1 and in response to a meal eaten with hydrogen rich water than you would to a meal eaten without it. So it is an actual appetite suppressant, not an appetite suppressant, it's a GLP1 agonist. It helped to release more GLP1 and help you feel satiated early.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So we could go on and on.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

And on about the studies of that. But the reason why I start every morning with all nine of the essential amino acids, all 91 essential minerals and hydrogen gas is because the big data tells us that that is the baseline for human optimization.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

The reason why I am enormous fan.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Of perfect aminos is because of this.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You know, the reason why we have protein equivalents, 1 kg of body weight.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

For every gram of protein, you know, or what do you have to take in? 1 gram of protein for every kilogram of body weight is.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Protein is actually useless in the human body. All protein becomes the same thing.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

What does all protein break down into amino acids?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Protein does not build muscle, protein doesn't.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Build natural killer cells. Protein does not build collagen, elastin and fibrin. Amino acids build those things.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Amino acids are the building blocks of life. The reason why we have protein equivalents.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Is to try to get to the amino acid equivalent.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So we're gobbling up a ton of.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Protein so that we can actually have the right base of amino acids.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

But what happens when you're eating protein, men or women, and you get just, you're missing just one of the nine essential amino acids. What if you only have eight of.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The essential amino acids in that protein? What happens to the rest of that protein? It gets converted into fat or into sugar.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So if you want to be efficient about protein, you get efficient about amino acids. You fuel the body with amino acids.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Yes.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Protein in your diet is really good.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

And I think protein equivalents are amazing.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

It's very rare that women, for example, can actually meet their daily protein equivalent.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Without going way over their macros.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

It is really hard for women to.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Sit down, eat four chicken breasts, six eggs and a fat rib eye.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Unless you're my wife. She you can eat. No, as lean as she is, that woman can put down a rib eye.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I'm not kidding. You like nothing I've ever seen but.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Wife, no, you're beautiful and you're, and you're fit as a fiddle, but you can suck down a ribeye. I mean, let's just call a spade a spade. So it's very rare for women to be able to hit those, those amino.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Acid equivalent without going way over their macros. This is why I fell in love with perfect aminos, wasn't to sell a product. I don't put products on my platform just to get an affiliate link and push them out to the audience. They have to have a rationale for me to use them every day in my daily life and for it to be a part of my platform. This company wasn't founded by the folks that are behind the desk right there. It was founded by a doctor named Dr. Minkoff. And Dr. David Minkoff is in his.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

How old is Dr. Minkoff now?

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

78.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So he's 78 years old and he.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Is still competing in full distance triathlons.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

That's someone I'll take advice from. He's also an oncologist and a board.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Certified MD I have been a part of the miracle healing that he has done in hundreds of patients. We have actually shared clients and walked people out of some of the darkest moments in their life back into some of the brightest moments in their life. And I became an enormous fan of Dr. Minkoff and when he formulated perfect aminos and took me down the rabbit hole of the science about utilization, if.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You had there are no calories, it does not break a fast. It's the equivalent of 29 grams of whey protein. Most of you to get in 29.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Grams of whey protein, that is a thick heavy shake about a quart of.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Fluid and whey protein in the same.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Amount of amino acid equivalent you would get from one scoop of perfect amino. So you get all nine of the.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Essential amino acids, 99% of which gets.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Utilized by the body and 1% gets converted to fat or to Sugar.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

If you look at the comparison between whole eggs, meat, fish, poultry, soy, nuts, or branch chain amino acids, which by.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The way is really garbage. I hope you guys know that branched chain amino acids are just sugar water, right?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

If you, if you look at all.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Of the 22amino acids that we have, nine of them are essential. Three of those essential amino acids are branch chain chain.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And the big theory was because those.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Three amino acids are utilized at the muscle level, we should just shovel in a bunch of branch chain amino acids. But the truth is, as you shovel in branch chain amino acids, virtually a hundred percent of the BCAAs are converted to fat or to sugar. Leucine, isolucine and valine on their own will not build muscle. You need all nine of the essential amino acids, leucine, isolucine and valine. Branch chain amino acids will not build collagen or elastin or fibrin. You cannot make a natural killer cell. You cannot enhance your hair, your skin, your nails, or build muscle. So let's just dispel the BCAA theory and get back to all nine of the essential amino acids.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So that's, this is the reason why.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

They made it into my protocol and the reason why I wanted to talk about each of them specifically.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And also, you know, if you look, I talked yesterday about how scary it.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Was be if you looked at the comparison of a 1945 soil lineage study to a 2022, which was the last time we did it. Soil lineage study.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You know, our soil used to be.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

So fertile, we used to use potash.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Manure and we didn't put glyphosate and.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Paraquat and insecticides and pesticides and herbicides.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

We didn't glean our fields, we didn't.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Overproduce crops from the same soil.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

When the soil gets that depleted, the animals that eat that soil are depleted, the plants that grow in that soil are depleted.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

It would fascinate you how nutrient depleted. The vast majority of our food supply is organic or not. The absence of chemicals, herbicides, pesticides and insecticides is not the presence of nutrition. It's simply the absence of chemicals.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So we need to, in modern society.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Get back to replenishing our body with the 91 essential minerals that we need, need the nine essential amino acids that we need. And adding hydrogen gas as a selective antioxidant so we don't have to guess about whether there's too much or too little oxidation in our body. That's why I believe that those three are foundational to every single morning routine it will cost you about $3 a day to add those to your morning routine.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And if you don't want to use these products, use a different product.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

But make sure that your morning routine includes that. Supplementing for deficiency, not the sake of supplementing and covering the basics with amino acids, minerals and hydrogen gas.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You know what else is fascinating about minerals?

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I also talked about this yesterday, so sorry if I'm repeating myself for a few of you. You know, I spoke at a conference called an osteostrong conference a few months ago.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And this is a, this is a.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Franchise that's just dedicated to bone health and bone density and increasing bone strength.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Because we know that these hormetic stressors.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

In the body are very good for us. We respond by strengthening. If you don't load a bone, it doesn't strengthen. If you don't tear a muscle, it doesn't grow. If you don't challenge the immune system, it weakens.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Right? I mean, the worst thing to ever happen to humanity during the pandemic, and.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I'm sorry for you guys that are on the other side of this fence, was residential quarantining, masking and social distancing.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Those actually crushed the immune profile of the planet. We had a global weakening of the.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Immune system because you know what human.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Beings are meant to do. What you're doing right now, sitting three feet away from a stranger, getting inoculated with all kinds of nonsense, probably 1800 pathogens you will pick up today. And guess what? None of you will get sick. Because that is a walk in the.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Park for your God given immune system.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

But when we took people out of.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Contact with other human beings, our immune system retreated.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And then all of a sudden you started hearing about things like monkeypox.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I was like, what the hell is monkeypox?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

I never heard of that. Well, it's always been there. It's just now started to infect people because our immune system was so weak. We're on our eighth iteration of omicron, the mutated virus from. From SARS CoV2. How many of you gotten your eighth booster? Good. Okay. I actually know people that have gotten eight boosters, double vaxxed, boosted. And now you're on your. So if you're following the vaccine schedule, you should be on number eight. Number nine is coming out in the middle of November, so stay tight, catch up, get the last seven, get the ninth one in November. Why do we need to keep inoculating ourselves if we.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

If it's an actual vaccine that prevents the infection and prevents the spread So.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

I believe so much more in our.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

God given immune system. If we had taken the masks off, reduced the social distancing, and allowed human beings to be, be in contact with other human beings, we would have ended that pandemic 17 months earlier. That is absolutely my, my, my deep belief.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And so the reason why I believe that we need to empower our human.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Physiology and not rely on chemicals and synthetics and pharmaceuticals is the innate intelligence of the body far outweighs the capacity of modern medicine to understand it. When we study things in isolation, we usually find out 10 years later that we made a mistake. When you take a cell out of a human being and you put it in a petri dish in a lab, and you look how it behaves in a lab, and you assume that if you take that cell and put it back in the body, it's going to behave the same way, you're wrong. Cells behave in communities just like human beings behave in communities. And unless we study them in the community that they're in, we get very myopic, misguided research. This is what led to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. This is what led to statin medications, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, ACE inhibits, diuretics, all kinds of consequences from these things because we studied them in isolation, not in human beings.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And so as my morning routine, you're welcome to take a picture of that.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

That's what I do every morning. Some people ask me, how are you.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

In your 14th city in 18 days? That's why. Hydrogen water, amino acids, sea salt. And it's amazing that you can get.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

All 91 trace minerals from sea salt.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

But in any case, I was doing.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

This talk at this osteostrong lecture.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

It was fascinating to me how many.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Physicians in that audience still thought that our bones were made of calcium, that.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You needed to supplement with a bunch of calcium and then put the bone.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Under a load and the bone would actually strengthen.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

That's actually patently false. Our bones are actually not made of calcium.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Our bones are made of something called hydroxyapatite, same thing your teeth are made out of.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And hydroxyapatite forms when you take calcium.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

And phosphorus and you put them together, you form something called hydroxyapatite, which forms strong bones.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

But in order for calcium and phosphorus to combine, you need 12 minerals. The vast majority of people with osteopenia and osteoporosis, or weak bones, are mineral deficient. They are not calcium deficient. It is extraordinarily rare in modern society.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

To have a calcium Deficient patient, a calcium deficient to human beings, it just doesn't happen anymore.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And so the mineral deficiency is what.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Is causing the demineralization of bones. It's causing the demineralization of our enamel, the demineralization of our teeth. It makes soft teeth, soft bones, and it makes soft skin.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And so this is why I believe.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

So much, and this is why we put together the ultimate human experience, so you could experience all three of those things. I wanted to give you the rationale behind those things. Why do we do genetic methylation testing? Because what goes into his body and her body and her body and her body are treated vastly different. Different?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

No.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

No two human beings are exactly the same. The mass adoption of things for a population is another very dangerous thing that we do in medicine. We assume that what goes into everyone's body is treated exactly the same thing.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

In fact, when the pandemic first happened.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

And the vaccines first came out, I knew nothing about them.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

My initial hesitation was only by observation.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Because I sit on the board of the NFL Alumni Association. I'm their health service director. So we have 22,000 professional athletes in this organization and we care for like the nose tackle at the time for the Green Bay Packers.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

This guy is 6ft 6 inches tall.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Okay? He's, he's bigger than my big boy Drew here. He's a very big boy. Sorry, Drew. There's bigger guys than you?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

No one meaner than you. But there are some, they're bigger. So he's 6ft 6 inches tall and he walks around at 340 pounds. I also have a 5 year old.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Niece who's 49 pounds.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

You will never convince me that these two human beings get the exact same dose of the exact same thing and.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Have the exact same reaction.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

That was my initial hesitation.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I'm like, that doesn't make any sense.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

He looks like he swallowed a water buffalo and she's been playing with Legos all day.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

They don't get the same thing.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And so by hydrating, mineralizing, putting basic amino acids and all 91 essential minerals.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You are starting your day by giving your physiology exactly what it needs to do its job. Why don't we just give the body a chance?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

I don't want to belabor you guys.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I know it's hot in this room. It's hard to sit here and listen.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

To a lecture when you're, when you're sitting in the heat.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

I'll take three questions from the audience.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Because if there are three questions, probably.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Three other people have the question yes, ma'. Am.

[Audience Member]

My son was going to a surgery for brain tumor. What do you recommend to counteract any. No remnants of the radiation.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

The remnants of the radiation on the brain. So remnants of radiation anywhere in the body and remnants of radiation on the brain are threefold. How old is your son?

[Audience Member]

He's nine.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Okay, so God bless the fact that he's nine because the neuroplasticity of his brain is not going to finish forming until he's about 24 years old. So any of the symptomology he has right now he can grow out of. It is critical that you do methylation testing. So he's supplemented for deficiency. And I would really recommend transcranial red light therapy. Transcranial red light therapy uses more than just red light. It uses high powered lasers to bathe the brain in red light. One of the issues with, with radiation is it destroys the mitochondrial function not at the site of radiation, but at the pathways through radiation. Right. So when they radiate the brain or any other targeted spot in the body for that matter, it looks like you remember those, those old lamps that used to have. I'm sort of dating myself here back to the 80s, but it had a bubble in the middle of it and.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Had a globe and you could put your hands on it and the little.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Electricity would like go out to the, to the sides.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So this is kind of what it.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Looks like when they radiate, right? They, they take the sphere of the skull and you see all of these different pathways come in. And where they all cross, that's where the radiation is targeted. But it passes through healthy tissue on the way there.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So, so that radiation beam is damaging.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

That tissue on the, on the way in.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

And so this is, is what we.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Call diffuse or global radiation damage. One of the best things to regenerate mitochondrial function at its root is with, with in the brain is with transcranial red light. I would also have him doing methylation pathway testing. Neuronic makes a good helmet. Well, Weber makes a good helmet. These, these are helmets that are actually meant to go transcranial. Much higher power than regular red light, which will not. It will reflect off of the dura, not pass through the dura. So I would be using regular transcranial red light. And it's about a three to six minute session a day. These are as light as a bicycle helmet that the, the science has advanced tremendously. And you don't actually target the site of radiation. You target the diffuse global. Both. Both hemispheres of the brain. Yeah. Okay. One more Question.

[Audience Member]

Thank you.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

You're super welcome.

[Audience Member]

I have an osteOpeny and my GP just decided to start with the HRT immediately. And I'm wondering your opinion about HRT because it started to become very common, especially in the uk and I watched a lot of, you know, podcasts and YouTube videos by the scientists from America. So I'm wondering your opinion about hrt.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Yes. So I have a very positive opinion about hormone replacement therapy. Here's, here's the caveat. About 70% of the clients that I see that qualify for hormone replacement therapy do not need hormones. And the reason for that is they are deficient in the raw material that their body needs to make hormones. So if you are deficient in something called dhea, which is a very, very common deficiency in perimenopausal and, and premenopausal females, I'm not making any assumptions about you by the way, but is a very common deficiency. Dhea, dihydrate, epi, androsterone is the precursor to make hormones. If you are clinically deficient in vitamin D3, if your D3 is above below 60 to 80 nanograms per deciliter, you are a candidate for low hormones, not for hormone therapy. That being said, I think that you should do the hallmark gold standard test for hormone replacement therapy, which is called a Dutch test. Please don't have your hormones replaced from a simple blood test. A blood test is a snapshot in time. It will tell you your luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, progesterone, pregnenolone, testosterone free testosterone and estrogen. As a snapshot in time, what's the most important thing in all of female hormone therapy, and this is critical, is not to treat the level, it's to treat the ratios. This is true in men and women.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

If a man is walking around with.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Testosterone at a 900 and estrogen at 70, no problem. If a man is walking around with testosterone at 300 and an estrogen at 70, massive problem. This is a dude that's crying at children's movies, right? And has tender breasts.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So you know, the, the, the issue is the ratio and the Dutch test.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Will give you the ratio. The second thing is if you are.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Going to replace hormones, you replace all.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Of the hormones in the sequence. Hormone replacement therapy is exactly what its name sound like. It is a replacement therapy. If you. I, I always use this example when I teach HRT supplementation classes. If you have two men, let's say one with a testosterone of 201 with a testosterone of 800. And you're going to put them on hormone injections. Who gets more testosterone, the guy with 200 or the guy with 800?

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Who gets more testosterone?

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

They're going to get exactly the same amount. The reason why is both of their production is going to zero. So what happens is we make the mistake of treating the level and we believe that putting a hormone into the body is cumulative. It's not.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

With supplementation, if you have a B12.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Level of 500 and you take B12, it can go to 1200.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

It will stack on top of your level. When you replace a hormone, the hormone.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

That exists in production, your endogenous production goes to zero.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

So it is important to replace the.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

Entirety of that hormone, not to supplement for the difference between where it is and where your GP wants it to be. It's important to supplement for the entire cycle. The best way to get that dosage is to take a Dutch test. And you will usually end up replacing everything from pregnenolone to estrogen. There's three different forms of estrogen. There's E1, E2 and E3. They're, they're. They have different. They. They play different roles at different time in a woman's cycle, meaning some are higher when women are menstruating, some are. Some are higher postmenopausal, and some are higher during Perry and premenopause. So it's important to know exactly where you are in the cycle and there to replace the entire cascade of hormone. By the way, the very same study that linked estrogen supplementation to breast cancer has demystified, delinked the link between hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer. So if you're still one of those people, women, that is apprehensive about hormone replacement therapy because you're, you're worried about the increased risk of breast cancer, that has been debunked. Okay, my team is telling me that we have to wrap it up.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Guys, please. These are free. While you are in here, please experience the essential amino acids. Take one of those Shakers home with you.

[Dr. Justin Marchegiani]

They're free.

[Dr. Shawn Baker]

Grab one and if you haven't done your genetic test, please do. Thank you so much. Thank you.