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What Are You Made Of?
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your DNA: The Future of Brain Optimization with Dr. Patrick Porter, Ph.D.
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Welcome back to the Woody Made Up Show. It's your boy, C. Rock here I'm with my friend, one of my favorite people on the planet. Besides his expertise and everything he's accomplished and how he's impacting the world, he's just a good dude. Dr. Porter, thank you for joining me today.
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Thanks for having me. It's good to be here.
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Yeah, man, you've got a lot going on and I love watching from afar. I get to talk to you occasionally and all that, but like, I like watching from afar and kind of cheering you on because you're really making an impact in this world. And I got a lot of questions for you today. I want to go deep into the mind and the brain, but before we do that, I got to ask you the question, what are you made of?
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Well, you know, there's something called the electron transport chain. Those are electrons. That's what I'm made of. But that translates into a motivated person who sees the world as it is and wants to change it because we're in a stress environment. So I wake up every morning feeling like I'm running 100 yard dash. And I look down the track and I say, wow, let's get started. And I trained for it. And so I want to get everybody involved in just as well as I know you're into physical fitness. We need to have some brain fitness now because of the stress we're all experiencing. And if we can get over that stress hurdle, then our nervous system, parasympathetic sympathetic system, they can work for us and really level up our game. That's what I'm talking about.
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Yeah. Well, you know, the funny thing is that everything starts whether I'm going in the gym, lifting or doing some zone two cardio or hiit, whatever, it all starts in the brain, right? And matter of fact, maybe even beyond that, it might start in somewhere else, wherever the mind's located.
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Right.
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In your studies, what's your best guess? Because nobody knows for sure. Where is the mind located?
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Well, this is interesting. MIT just came out with a study about 12 weeks ago that actually said that thoughts arise in the brain. They don't originate there. So but what they said is that your thought, like when you have a thought, Mike, that thought goes out 10,000 miles from where you are. And MIT said this. It's not, it's not metaphysics. This is science. They said it goes into a web that looks like the world Wide Web. So I mean, this is. So basically we're entangled. Like when we talk here when somebody's watching this video, we have an entanglement. This is called quantum physics. Right. So this entanglement means that if we can all work together, you know, the drop of the ocean isn't very powerful, but if you put a billion drops of water, that becomes a tsunami and can make changes in the world.
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Yeah. And you know, we're in battle right now. Countries are battling not just the physical war, but like mentally and, and, and, and propaganda and all kinds of evil out there and all that. What percentage of the world do we need to have get a line to really make an impact?
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There's actually something called the Maharishi effect where the Maharishi had people meditate in Washington D.C. and he said, I can bring the crime rate down to X and it's on YouTube. They can just look at the real numbers. But they said, there's no way that'll happen. So they went into the meditative state they called TM and they prayed for peace, love, compassion, harmony in, in the District of Columbia. Right. And the crime rate went down beyond what he said he could do. And then the mayor, this is all documented, the mayor said, that's not possible. And he said, okay, we'll stop crime went right back up. There was no snowstorms, there was no weather patterns there. It was basically people's human brains praying, really. You know, so when you think, when you pray for another person, you do have an effect on them. You know, you pray for their well being, you pray for their health, their harmony. Because anything that happens through you, happens to you. So, you know, when, when even Buddha 5,000 years ago said, he who angers you, conquers you. So if you think an angry thought toward another person and when you think about when you say the war on the brain, really. Because when you look at social media, a lot of doom scrolling, right? So that's the worst thing you can do. You know, in AA they have a saying, you know, change the things you can embrace and the things you don't have any control over. I mean, we can't really change the politicians. You know, that's a, that's a, that's a mind game. But we can change our home, we can change our internal state. We can become the very best person in C RAC What I want the listeners to understand is this isn't just fairy dust. MIT also proved that our thoughts change our DNA, which means it upregulates if we look at life as a challenge rather than a threat. So these are so in, it's being verified by other universities around the world. I mean, we work with Ames, Bhopal, New Sol in, in Brazil. We have all these different universities verifying this findings that MIT did. And it's coming up like, wow, we are electrical beings or what we would call light beings. Although we show up as, of course, blood and guts and vomit or whatever.
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Yes.
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You know, but the reality is that nothing happens until the brain says so. And I love what, what. There's a quote that says, thoughts are ancestors to action. Watch your thoughts and you'll see your actions. So we need to change our thoughts and we need to see the world more as an opportunity or a challenge rather than a threat. And that somebody's out to get us. Because they're not out to get us, Mike. They're, they're out there for themselves. They're not, they're not out to get you personally, they're just out for themselves. So everybody's trying. It's. Think of the very first race you ever ran in this lifetime was when you were that little sperm, right, Racing with, against a million other sperms. You, you had to beat them to that, that egg and you punctured that egg and you became you. Because that happened. And we've been running ever since.
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Yeah, well, and, and the, the human beings are out for themselves. However, there's a, you know, I read the Bible, right? There's, there's, there's a evil force, the prince of the world that is behind it all. And he is after you, right? He's after your, your attention, your intentions. He wants your intention to be his intention. That's just my belief on it, but it makes sense. And we can break this down into science.
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All the world's religions have this, this character, right? Even in India they have the Shiva, who's the creator and the destroyer. But when somebody looks, when I talk to somebody, I say, you know, evil is, you know, live spelled backwards. So when you think about. Everything is dying every moment as we're sitting here talking, 50 million cells per second are dying. 50 million cells per second are being reborn. Everything is in a constant state of flux in this universe. And so as you think about it from a scientific standpoint. Yeah, but if you focus too much on the evil, you give power to it like you give power to the devil, you know, And I do believe there are forces that, that manipulate people, you know, I mean, how can people just think it's okay to go kill somebody, you know? I mean, they have to be possessed by something because life is so precious now. If you're looking at it from a higher, I guess, spiritual realm. You can say, well, the essence or the soul never dies. But the reality is that this is a precious life we have here. So what are we doing today? And one of the, one of the key things like in the, in the theories of longevity, they said, is when you help other people, when you have a community and you help those people, you actually get a payoff. You get neurological information and physiological information in the form of neuropeptides, neurons firing and wiring. You get those feel good, Acet, choline, you get oxytocin, all these things just by helping out another person. And there's 54 different neurotransmitters, so I'm not going to name them all. But your body, basically, when you step up and you take action to help somebody without any thought of return, just like they say, say the prayer and give it to God. Let go. Let God right in, in. People don't understand that in, in science, what they're saying is let the mechanism work. You know, the, the, the process has already started. You know, it didn't start with us, it won't end with us. As, as Billy Joel says in his song, you know, who started the fire? You know, we're just part of the machine really, but we can make it better because we make ourselves better, then we make our family better, we make our community better, then we'll, we'll see that going. In the number that you're looking for in the, he says it's, it's like 1%.001% of humanity. And this is exciting because we're starting to do these group activations. And pretty soon on our channel, on our brain tap channel, we'll be able to activate literally hundreds of thousands, millions of people, even a billion people, if they want to come on, all at the same time in the same brainwave at the same time thinking peace, harmony and just changing the frequency. In listeners think of frequency as this. It's what you frequently see. That's your frequency. So if you're seeing death, doom, destruction, terrible things, that's your frequency. Change the channel just like your radio dial. Change it to peace, love and harmony. It's not that that doesn't happen, but even Jesus said, be in the world, but not of it. You know, so we, we can't get trapped into the, the sitcom of this world. We have to rise above it and realize that we are contributing.
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Yeah.
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100.
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We're, we're, we got to take responsibility for that. You Know each and every person. Instead of being the puppet, I always like to say I'd rather be the puppet master versus the puppet, you know? Right. Now, before I get into some other questions on this topic here, I want to know about little Patrick. So how did you become about in the first place? What's your story, Dr. Porter?
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Well, I was probably the worst child you could ever imagine. I was. I was the guy that woke up every morning and thought God was out to get him. And I thought I was, I was that Debbie Downer kind of, but I was, of course I was male, but when everything was bad, everything was bad luck. But then my dad, who was a chronic alcoholic, got help with something called the Silver Method. This is a meditation process. And it was a Catholic church that they came to our house and the priest and the nun were, were doing this relaxation seminar and they taught my dad how to relax. And my dad had gone to all of these different one month long retreats to try to stop drinking. Nothing seemed to work. Every year he'd take a couple two to three week vacations in alcoholism, you know that, and leave his family. Nine kids, I mean, I couldn't imagine that. But when he, when he woke up after that seminar, he never drank again. And the reason was that he found out that he was drinking because he wanted to relax. So he found a way to do it. So I always tell people meditation is your medication, but the problem is most people don't know how to meditate. In fact, when we've measured brains, and we've measured over 30,000 brains in the last 10 years, and what we found is that most people, their default mode network, or what the Dalai Lama calls the monkey mind takes over as soon as you close your eyes, all this thoughts come up. Well, we know by providing light, sound and vibration that we can put that default mode network on hold. You get suspended into a state of receptivity, let's say, because it's a field. And for those out there going, what's he talking about? Go to NIH website, National Institute of Health, the same people that are supposedly trying to kill us. You know, you go to their website, type in biofield, you're going to find that they, they have in their records from 1994 that they said every living being has a field of energy around them that extends three feet. Now we know it's 16ft now, but back in 1994 they could measure it. Because you and I, while we're sitting here, the reason I can see you, you can see me, is you're emitting infrared light. And most people out there that are health optimization experts and things, they know that infrared light is healing. So what do you think people like, you know, like masters like Jesus would put their hands on somebody, they could channel that light and recorrect the physiological system. Now we're doing it by what they call biohacking. But the reality is that nature does it normally. So we're in this flow of energy, and we need to create our environment that supports us. We should feel safe. We should feel expansive. We should know that the world is actually. They call it pro normal, pronoral. What do they call it? It's. It's the opposite of being paranoid. But you're. You believe that everything is working for you. In fact, Matthew 10 says, you know, everything is working for your good. You know, so when you think about even the worst situation you're in right now, if somebody's listening, says, man, my life's shit right now. I can't make anything happen. The reality is that there's never been a superhero. Read the comic books. There's never been a superhero that didn't go through the dark night of the soul. But when they emerged on the other side of that tunnel, guess what? They had a superpower. So you're just training your superpowers, you know, in. I've never met. And we work with a lot of Olympic athletes, pro athletes. I've never met one of them that said, can you give me an easier workout so I can get results? They go, what's the toughest workout I can do? When you go to the gym, C Rock. I'm sure you don't go, what's the easiest thing I can do today just to get out of here? I want to push these muscles, right? The same thing's true with our consciousness, our brain, our physiology, all of these things working together. And I think as we all rise up and recognize that you are the puppet master, you get, you get. You get veto power, like the president. You don't have to accept a thought. You can say, I don't like that thought. Now, of course, you have to train your brain to do these things. Maybe we can get into that. But the reality is that if you use the default mode network, just as an example, there's a quote out there that says, the Benedictine monk said, give me a child to their seven, I'll give you a Catholic for life. Because those first seven years are so important. And you probably know people that say, I use IBM, I use Apple, right? There's two different versions of operating systems. In politics they call it Republican, Democrat, right? They're just different operating systems. They're both wrong. People with Apple complain about Apple, people with IBM complain about IBM. But if you try to tell them to change, oh no, I'm not changing my operating system. But the reality is that we have a human operating system and you get to control it. And this, there's never been a time in history where we have access to the human operating system like we do today, because we used to have to do it through things like the light of the sun, nature, the environment. And so we can use technology because we have a problem in the world today, right? Mental health. And people think it's mental health, but it's really a physiological problem. Your body is not responding to the environment. Our brains were not designed for the life we're living today. Our brains were designed to live in the Serengeti. That's why every day at 2 o' clock when you have that, that physical low, that's not because you didn't take enough olive oil or whatever they're saying on the Internet today. It's because you have a biological reset. Now you can take olive oil at that time and it will boost yours because the cells of your body need that fat. The essential, the, the, the, the, the three fat. And, and what happens is the cells absorb that fat energy and it burst energy out through the system. So what we're finding now is people are smart enough, we have tools like watches and rings and beds and everything that measure our physiology. And we say, wow, what I did yesterday didn't work. Look at my sleep score. And then we change something and we go, wow, I'm sleeping. Because sleep is the number one way that we activate our superpowers. We go into that dormant state of sleep and if we get a good night's sleep, everyone out there probably will agree with me. When you get a good night's sleep, you think you can take on the world. And that's true because you upregulated all your DNA. Because if you look at life as a challenge rather than a threat, your DNA actually upgrades. And when Henry Ford said, when you think you can or you think you can, you're right. Neuroscience has actually proven that when you think you can't, your body actually down regulates every DNA pair in your body. And this shift happens every 40 seconds. So you're not stuck with that past self. You've got to be able to change gears. Just like driving a, a fast race car, you know, you Got to have those lower gears and those upper gears to change the brain state so you can get into the state of consciousness and tune into the frequency that you ought to see.
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Yeah, I love this. And, and you know when you were a kid, right. And your dad got into this, this meditation and then stopped drinking as a kid, especially boys, it seems like they don't like to listen to their dads. Right. And somebody else comes along and says the same thing, and they listen to him and the dad's like, what? What the heck?
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So that did happen to me. I was at U of M University of Michigan sports camp. And Dana Coyne, who at that time, I don't know if he still holds the record, he held the record for the most extra points ever kicked. Of course, Michigan scored a lot of points, so you got to have a team that scores a lot of points. And what, what he said was, you can't kick enough with your physical body. You would have at. You would atrophy. You can do it. So he used his mind and I went, he's doing the same thing. My dad's teaching me to visualize.
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You know, you pushed back against your dad when he was trying to share with you.
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I was never going find something that works.
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Yeah, when you find something that works. Yeah, when you find something that works, you, you become an evangelist about it and you tell your family, you tell your kids, you tell your wife, you tell all you people in your network. And, and one of the best things
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my dad did, though, was he realized very early on that we were, we weren't going to listen to him.
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Right.
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Because I had a bunch of four letter words in my mind that my dad told me that they weren't love.
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Right, right, right.
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So what he did was he said when we got in trouble, he said, go over to my bookshelf, pick out a book, read a chapter, and tell me how you're going to implement that in your life. Out of nine kids, no alcoholics. That's because we learn to think differently. We could have taken the road my dad took, become alcoholics. And I'm not against people drinking, but nobody can really drink. I mean, just think about it. They take race car drivers, Formula one drivers, they give them two drinks, they can't perform. Yep. So that means our biological. Now you just have to know that's what you're doing. You know, if you have a glass of wine or you have a drink that it's going to down regulate your system. It's not the, you know, the, the other one Says, I love the T shirt my brother got. He says, instant asshole. Just had instant asshole. Just add alcohol, you know, because people change their personality. And I tell people that's why they call it spirits. But besides that, we can upregulate through meditation practices, right? We can, we can begin to think about what we're thinking about. And we are receivers. They actually know now that our brain between our ears is nothing more than a Google tablet. It, it basically just retrieves information and transmits information. Your heart. For those that don't know this, Your heart has 40,000 really in essence brain cells. It thinks there was actually a heart transplant where the guy who got the transplant, he had been working out, doing everything to try to save his heart, but then he gets transplant and now he's got cravings for Kentucky Fried Chicken. And he goes, I don't even, I never ate Kentucky Fried Chicken. He found out the donor was like addicted to Kentucky Fried Chicken, you know, because that brain, he got a transplant not only of the heart, but those 40,000 neutron cells, those neutrino cells that actually broadcast out into the body and tell the body what to do. So your heart is the most important brain. And then we have our gut brain. And a lot of people, I think the gut brain is the number one brain because you know, like Christopher Reeves, when you get a spinal cord injury, your body still functions. You still go to the bathroom, you still are alive, you can still think, you just can't walk because the spinal cord which is the keyboard of the brain has been severed. But if, if the, if you think about it, our most of our body and Bruce Lipton said this best in, in. He's one of the professors we bring out to Quantum University. I'm the dean of brain based medicine. But we bring him out because he wrote a book called Biology of Belief. Means that your beliefs change your biology. They've proven this in science. Now it's not a metaphysical concept. I mean there's a lot of woo woo out there. But I mean the reality is that when you think you can remember, you can because you upregulate. Now does that mean I'm going to visualize myself playing basketball like Michael Jordan and somehow I'm going to get out on the court and be Michael Jordan. No, I wasn't gifted with the same talents and skills that Michael Jordan, but I can have his much fun as Michael Jordan. I can up my game, I can take my game to the next level, whatever that is. And it doesn't have to be the game of a Sport. It could be the game of family interactions, dealing with your children, dealing with your job. Because I kind of visualize the world like a cube, and we occupy that cube, and if we outgrow that cube, it has to break into a bigger cube, then we get new friends, new opportunities, new expansions. Then we go poof. We keep breaking it up, breaking it out, breaking it out until it's pretty soon we're on the world stage instead of just in our neighborhood talking to people. And you know, on that point right
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there, what about the nervous system recalibration that has to happen or you go back to the small cube again.
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Yes. Well, yeah, if you are. If you're always thinking that life happens to you instead of through you. Now listen to those words. Is. Is life happening to you like you do? Get up in the morning and say, oh, my God, what's the weather? Am I going to feel good? Is. Is Betty going to like me? Is Fred going to accept my emails? Am I going to get enough likes on social media? Then you're already lost because your DNA actually downregulates. But if you say, hey, I'm going to put this out there, this is good information if one person gets it. My thought is just like the brain. If we can get one new thought in the listeners today, C rack, we have changed their brain because the neuroscience says we have to rewire the whole brain to get one new thought in there because everything's connected. It's like beads on a string. So if you want to keep expanding the expansion is, what new thing can I learn today? And if you wake up like, like I do every morning is the first day of school, and I love school. I mean, if I could stay in school and just keep going, you know, and I would, I would have done that. So I. Every day the books are open, the ink on the pages, the new erasers, the new crayons, you know, this is a new discovery. But if you wake up and go, oh, ssdd. You know how they say same stuff, different day, or whatever you want to put in the second s, you know, you think about it, people think you don't bring the past with you. And this is why sleep's important. C rock because imagine with me for a moment, we're going to go back in time. You and I are in Medical School, 2015. We're sitting in class. They're telling us about something called the lymphatic system. Now, the lymphatic system, for those that aren't physiologists, it Runs everywhere. You have a blood vessel, you have a lymph vessel. That lymph vessel is the garbage man of the system. And I always liken it to New York City. You know, you go into the show and all the garbage is piled up on the streets. You see the show, you come out and all the garbage is gone. You go, wow. What happened to all the garbage? Well, they have a very efficient system because they have to get the garbage off the island, right? If not, there would be no place for people to go. Well, the same thing's true with ourselves. And the lymph system does that. Now, at date, imagine 2015, you're in medical school, the lymph system only goes to the neck. But then in Denmark, they're doing a sleep study, and a doctor says, what? What's going on here? What's happening? There's a whole system of the body, like an X Men. There's a part of the body called the glial lymphatic system. It operates without your awareness, but it only operates at level four sleep. So if you have a ring or a watch or a bed or whatever is measuring your sleep, that deep sleep is the only time your brain detoxes. And if you can't get the toxins out, you can't get the nutrients in. So that's. That's part of brain function. That's why number one is movement. We need to get the body moving because the lymph system doesn't have a heart. It does it through breathing processes. You know, in. That's why I love. When I went to your events, you have somebody there doing breath work, because breath is key to your nervous system. When you talk about regulation, most people don't know how to breathe. They hold their breath all the time because they're waiting to say something. And the reality is that when you go with the flow, the information comes.
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Yeah, yeah. I remember you saying that to me when I was doing the brain scan. You're like, hey, wait a minute. Take a breath. You haven't breathed. And since then, and since Jeremy was there, I've been working on my breathing. I've been doing more now, nasal breathing as well, for nitric oxide production. And it's amazing the difference. Now I want to touch on mitochondrial health, because I want to know how mitochondrial health affects the brain and the mind, because I've been looking into this a lot. It's a big topic now. You're seeing more of it on social media. There's supplements called Mot C. You have SS31, you have Uralfin. Uralfin, I can't pronounce that one. A different ones. And since I've been doing cycles of those things, man, game changer. So how does that affect the brain?
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Right. The number one supplement you need for nitric oxide production is actually niacin B3. And it's very inexpensive. That's why you don't see people hawking it. You can get a, you can get a six month supply for like $30 on Amazon. Yeah, because niacin does a flush. It flushes because most people look at their bloodstream when they get a blood test. That's only 30% of your blood. The rest of your blood's in your capillaries and your brain is mostly made up of capillaries. So in order to get brain health. Now the reason that's important with mitochondria is the most mitochondria in your body per organ is your brain. But the most mitochondria per square centimeter is your eyes. So when people look at my brain tap and they go, why do you have lights in the eyes? Why are they flashing retinal flashing? Because your eyes not, you know, Superman has that power range, projects light. If we could see infrared, if we could see the infrared spectrum, we're all doing that.
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Wow.
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Yeah, like us, like a dolphin, we're sending light energy out, it's light energy back. We're, we're basically just like a computer program. We're remodeling this room. In the room that you're in, we're changing the pixels, we're seeing the colors. And by the way, your brain is actually trying to predict the future. Because neuroscience, they say that less than 10% of what you see is real. Over 90% of what you see, you just rendered like a computer program. And one of the fascinating things for the listeners, we, we had a chance to measure one of the most high performing brains ever. Her name is Danica Patrick.
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Oh, I thought you were going to say rocket in la. That one time
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Patrick had a super high performing brain. It's actually on YouTube. They can watch it on my channel. I did a scan with her, her brain was maxed out. Now imagine this. The human brain can only process speeds of 180 miles an hour. That's it. But these guys are running at 220, 230 miles an hour. How are they doing that? They're making it up. But they're so good at predicting the future, they don't crash. That's why you can't put me behind that wheel. I don't have the training. The, you know, I didn't. So we're all predicting the future. So are you predicting doom and gloom and, you know, whatever are you predicting? Hey, the world's working with me through me. It's. Everything's working for me. Even that bad situation, even that, that a hole that you go, why do I have to deal with him? That's your teacher. You know, once you learn and master that message, you move on. The teachers only stay around till you learn the lesson, and then. Then you move to the next person.
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Well, you know, prediction is dependent upon experiences and assessing prior experiences and really appreciating everything you've been through, which most people don't take the time to assess what they've been through. Like they're going through something now and they get all flustered and anxious and all this and in peril. But if they just stop for a second, breathe, and then look at everything you've already been through, right? Like.
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Well, you know, you'll notice when you use the brain tap at the end of almost every session, I would say 99.9% of the sessions before you awaken from that, that brain training, I say review your day. Everything that was good about your day, make it in color, make a success reel. I mean, it doesn't have. You don't. You're a superstar for. You put your success reel together. Any negative thing that happened, make it black and white, put it behind you. What lesson did you learn? And you train your brain to do these things. It's doing literally trillions of things right now. Just give it this one little thing, say, I don't like these thoughts that I keep thinking. Negative thoughts rule the world, unfortunately, because of our DNA. Imagine you and I are the descendants of a bunch of paranoid humans. We lived. We didn't jump off the cliff. We didn't fight the tiger. You know, our ancestors made it. You know, so we are the lineage of people that now we. Now it's time for a shift. You know, the old saying, what brought you here won't get you there. You know, so we need to upgrade our thinking, but we don't have to pay, you know, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or anyone else who's in the computer world. We have our own software, you know, our thinking software. We can upgrade that software in, like you said, the Bible is a good. A good place to start, you know, because if you really read it with that in mind, you'll see that Jesus said what I have Done, you can do and more. He didn't say less, he said more.
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Well, on that topic, I've been doing something over the last six months. You know, I've read the Bible front to back before. Right. And now with AI Chat, GPT gets to know you when you're using it often it gets to know who you are, what you're going through, this and that. Well, what I do now is I'll read a chapter a day and then I'll go and I'll say, let's study Genesis 23. Right. And because it knows what I'm going through right now, what my thought process, it actually will take that chapter and pull out things and lessons that I had and cognitions that I never could have even imagined reading it by myself. And it's been amazing. I've done it through the whole new chat, New Testament, and now I'm going back to Genesis and doing it. I'm chapter, I think 22 or 23 now, Genesis. And every single day I've been doing this and it just brings out new thoughts and from this. These words on a page. Right, right. It's an amazing practice. I wish I would have did it earlier on, but I didn't have AI back then. But it's. It's really intense, man.
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Yeah. Well, for the listeners, my favorite book that when my dad said, hey, I got in trouble a lot, right. So my dad said, go over to the bookshelf. There was a really small book there called As a Man Thinketh. Yeah, it's a very small book by James Allen.
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I have it.
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And I would get. I would pull that one because I was lazy. So I pulled it off and it said, what you think in your heart, you become in your life. And after getting in trouble so many times, it had at first I just making it up. You know the old saying, fake, fake it till you make it. But what you're doing is when you set aside time to work on you, your powerful mind says, your subconscious, your spirit, your, Your God, what, whatever it is that the listeners, you know, that's going to work through you because you're giving it time. If you're in a stressed, sympathetic drive, fight or flight, always thinking somebody's after you, somebody's going to get you, you actually close down those neural circuits. So by opening up, you know, and being receptive, you know, opportunities all over the world right now, even if you're in the worst situation in the world, you can. Where are you at right now? Who can you help right now? That's what you need to be thinking, who can I help? Who can I assist? Because as soon as you start doing that, they'll see that person's a value. And as long as you're a value here, your life flows, you get into the current and that current makes things happen. And you start getting synchronicity. Like you think of somebody and they text you, or they call you, or you get an email from them. You know, these aren't just. This is quantum entanglement and it's happening all over the world. Remember that web that we talked about at the beginning with mit? They said it goes into a web that looks like the World Wide Web. Your thoughts are adding or taking away from the joy, the love, the expression, the gratitude, all of those things. And when you take the time, you're adding value. And so I think we as humans in our body does the same thing. Just like if you don't exercise. You know, when I still remember my brother in law who's a, he was Mr. Idaho runner up or something, and he's a big old, you know, weightlifting guy. And we hired him and I remember my chairman of the board said, why are we hiring him? We don't have any heavy furniture for him to lift because in, in. But he would get angry and upset if he couldn't go work out. You know, he's like, I gotta get it, I gotta go do something, I gotta go lift some weights. You know, because his body was conditioned for health, it wasn't conditioned for laziness and sloth, you know, it was conditioned for being ready for action. So brain fitness first step is you got to get your body moving, breathing, got to do some weights. I'm sorry folks, but as we age, I'm only 64 years old, I'm only halfway there, right? So I'm in middle age right now. I can still do a plank for three minutes. You know, that's what you want to be able to say to your grandkids. I love it with my grand, my grandkids, grandpa year old, I said, see if you can outplay me. You know, he's sitting there looking at his phone or whatever. He's 13 years old, so he knows everything. So I'm trying to get all the answers to the universe right now, you know, but the reality is that we've learned along the way or we've stumbled along the way, but in either way, we're here now. Today's your birthday, you know, what are you going to do from this moment on? Because your brain only Starts evolving instead of devolving, which is happening in the world around us. I mean, when dementia is hitting 35 year olds today, there's a problem not only with movement, with foods, with thoughts, all these things are playing a role in technology is a big part of it too.
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Yeah. Well, speaking of that, do you think AI will make human intelligence stronger or solely make us mentally lazy?
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Well, when I was, I'm one of the speakers on Fox Radio and they asked me that question actually just a few weeks ago. And what they did was they gave university students, students the ability to use chat AI. 1, 1 set of people, the other didn't. And what they found out was the people that use chat knew nothing because they didn't interact with it. I think it has the potential to raise human intelligence, but you have to interact with it just like you would interact with a person. You can't just take what it tells you. I mean, I have Dr. Pai that, that I can use to pull from all my books, and I've written 11 books now, and all my podcasts and all my lectures, all my newspaper articles, all my magazines, all that's in a place and I can go there and it's, it's a, it's like a field or what do they call it? It's, it's a contained. So I don't go out to the Internet and get crazy stuff like Chat GPT does. But it's excellent. Like you said, it gives you information that I forgot. I go, wow, I said that? When did I say that? Oh, that's pretty good. You know, so I think it's gonna, it's. But we can't offload creativity. Yeah, that's where the human expression is. If you think you're going to lose your job because of Chat GPT, you're missing the mark. Let GPT do what Einstein said. They said Einstein. Do you remember everything that I'm saying? He says, no, I'm taking notes, I can write it down and recall it later. That's what Chat GPT is.
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Yep.
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Let that, Let the, let the slave do the work, which is Chat GPT. You're the master, you're the creative person. That's why prompts are so important. Right. When you're doing Chat GPT, one person put a prompt in there, they get a totally different answer than when you ask. Because the answers are the real solution.
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The quality of your answer just dependent upon the quality of your question.
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Yes. Yeah. So if you have a good question, if you have a good prompt, you'll get a good response. And that's why people actually sell their props. You go, look at these prompts. They delivered this. And people go, I want those prompts, you know, because it's in. We actually did a study, C Rock. It was pretty incredible. We took students in Pikeville, Virginia, and these were all students that were C students. They had to have made the decision as a junior that they weren't going to college. And I told doctors Sanford Sanders, who was the researcher on the project, I said, we're going to teach. We're going to spend four hours with them. That's it. And I'm not going to go through all of it. But the one hour we showed, we. We asked them a question. Who asked questions in your classroom? And every one of them said, dumb people ask questions. So we had them go around the classroom with a tick sheet and they found out. They came back the next week. I said, what'd you find out? They go, all the smart kids are asking questions. I said, yeah, because they want to learn. I said, so your assignment is to go into that classroom and you have to think of three questions to ask that teacher. I still remember the calls from the teachers at Pikeville. There were two high schools we were working with, and they said, these kids are taking over the classroom. I said, are the smart kids still asking questions? Yes. I said, now you're teaching to the people that really need to learn. They weren't asking, so they were teaching to the highest level. So by asking questions, you actually become smarter.
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Yeah.
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A lot of people go, I'm not going to ask questions. I sound stupid. No. Smart people go, I don't know that answer. So I'm going to ask that question. And what it does in the receptors of the brain, it then stores that information with the question. So then when you get asked that question yourself, now you have a hopper full of information you can spit back out easily and readily. And you sound intelligent. But it was. It was basically, there's nothing new under the sun, right? So we're, we're reading books, we're, we're taking in all this data. But how do we recall that information? You only recall it when you become creative and you interact with people and you start to discover and create. And really, I mean, you can create for good or bad, but when you create for good, your body gets a neurological benefit. And so I would say, you know, continue to create for good.
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So I use it as a person that you're talking to and having a conversation with versus a Google search is the answer. Right. All right, well, let me ask you this. So one thing I noticed, by the way, is that when I go guest on this, I've been on over 1200 shows. When I go on, I'll have things pop in my head that I forgot all the time. And it just comes to me with the question that they ask, like, you're saying, so. And then I'm like, damn, where did that come from? You know, but it's in there. It's in there. All right, so how, as we wind down here, how can people increase their brain fitness that have no idea where to start? And, and, and like, you know, anything that seems like overwhelming, we want to just take it a piece one at a time and chip away. Right. It's a stable datum theory. So where can they go? A couple steps that they can take.
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Yeah. Number one, even though I kind of made fun of olive oil, if you do a tablespoon of olive oil every day, your chances of dementia went down 40%. Because we're not feeding the brain. Drink half your body's weight in ounces of water because we're a hydro engine that's going to feed your brain. Now, when you use Brain Tap or light sound and vibration, that's the mitochondrial health you're talking about. So think of most people's mitochondria is like, it's still there, still burning, but it's like a bonfire with a bunch of wet leaves over top of it. We need to get the toxins out. So when you get you sleeping better. So when we, when we do at Brain Tap, we have three different times of the day. We want to have a neurological reset in the morning. We have what we call SMR training. You shouldn't drink your first cup of coffee first thing in the morning. I'm sorry, folks, that's not the best thing for your brain. It's the worst thing for your brain. But drink it two hours after you awaken, after you, because your body should wake up with cortisol, norepinephrine, dopamine. You should be a little nervous. It's a new day at school, you know, it's a new day, you know, get excited. Go, go do a workout. In fact, when you physically stress your muscles in the morning, it's three times more effective for building muscle than it is in the evening. So that's because all the sugar stores are in your muscles. So you can use those sugar stores. Now when you wait an hour to eat now your, your muscles are starving for sugar and you, the Sugar happens. If you don't do that, what happens? You have a cup of coffee, Boom. You spike cortisol, you spark norepinephrine, dopamine, all those things your liver pumps out, insulin. Insulin is a fat storage hormone. So all that circulating sugar from the coffee you just drank goes to the adipose tissue because you're just sitting there drinking a cup of coffee. So that's why I say wait till later now in the afternoon when you have that biological dip, which is normal. You're not broken, you're not wrong. And the older you get, the more that hits you. But you can biohack it, of course. You can do some things to regulate that. Do your. We, we do a theta reset. Theta is a brainwave between being awake and asleep. And what it does, it produces something called gaba. And GABA is a precursor to something called dmt. So your body makes that. You don't have to go on an ayahuasca journey, your body makes it for you. You know, and when we did our, when we did our research in Dallas with PTSD people in the veterans, we found that some of them didn't, did not want to do a psilocybin. And I had never done a psilocybin at that time. I've done it a couple of times since and it's okay, but it's, it's like golf. You gotta spend eight hours, you know, so I don't have time for that. So I just put on brain tab, I do it and then. But it's a reset. Think of it as a total reset. Our biological system. MIT also proved this. 54 generations are influencing you right now. That's what they say now, the Hopi Indians said seven generations, I think they're going to say all the way back to the beginning of time is influencing you right now because it's just information biologically transferring. So in the Serengeti at two o' clock in the afternoon, what's happening? Absolutely nothing. The lions are sleeping, the zebras are sleeping, the giraffes are sleeping, the elephants are sleeping. Nobody's running around at 2 o' clock in the afternoon. So our, for hundreds of thousands of years, these biological systems that we call the human body or animals, and that they're designed to sleep or take a reboot. Now we don't have four hours anymore, so we compress that in 20 minutes and then the next thing is before sleep. And I'm going to give you a tip, listeners, that you can do without the brain tap so you can get similar results might not be as fast, but if you use Brain Tap, of course you're going to go into Delta faster. The faster you can get to Delta on the first cycle, the more Delta you'll have. That's why if you go to Dave Asprey's event, over 75% of the people there will raise their hand saying they use Brain Tap because they measure their sleep. Sleep is the most important thing for resilience. But if you don't have Brain Tap tonight, what I want you to do, and you can download it for free, you can share your link or whatever, C Rock. And what happens is you want to do a four, eight breath. So you breathe into the kind of four. This triggers your sympathetic system when you breathe out, you want to breathe out slowly to the kind of eight and scan your body. And as you do, have that gratitude reel going. What are you grateful for about today? Thank your higher power. There is a power greater than you that's beating your heart. It's digesting your food, that's building your body, that's helping you to see. You're not the one seeing. You're the one receiving the pictures. But what's. It's a power greater than us. And of course, my background's Christian psychology, so I would have that slant. But the reality is that when you think about how your body and your brain and your environment all work together, we're symbiotic. One of my favorite things, when I was just getting into this, just for the listeners to understand, when this was back in 1986, I'm at a conference in Chicago and this guy gets up and he says, it was a Dr. Jockman and he had a book called the Crystal Planet. And he talked about NASA. And what. What NASA found out was we all have a resonant frequency. They can actually turn this device on you or me. And we have a tone. Now, they proved this. Every cell is singing, and when it's in harmony, it creates a harmonic, right? And so they said, wow, we can put this up into space for the Vietnam War and we can point it into the jungle and we can see how many Viet Cong are in there. But what surprised them was when they put it out into space and they pointed it back at the earth. That sound was the sound of om and registered one being and it shook the scientists. So this has been known since 1980s. So this is not new news, but nobody's telling you about it. You are connected to your family, to your friends. That's why when you have A family member that's hurting and suffering. It's a little bit more impactful. Somebody you don't know about. It's not so impactful, but, but we all care about groups or masses of people, but we need to first, just like on the airplane, when you get, when you get ready to go out there to the biohacking conference, you're gonna get on the airplane and they're gonna say, put your mask on first. Your mask is in here. Put your mask on first. Put your. Think of your perceptual filters. How are you filtering out the world? And how can you open that up to bring in more joy, more love, more peace, more harmony? And then that will reverberate down through your genetics, really. Your DNA is a broadcasting system. It's a viscous material. It's light that broadcast information. In fact, MIT showed we actually pull codes from the center of the universe. It sounds metaphysical, but it's not. It's science. And so, you know, there's so much that we're learning now. It's the best time to be alive right now.
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Love it. I love it. I could spend all day talking to you, which I'll, I'll spend a lot more time with you here. Coming up, I'm sure. DrPatrickPorter.com Can I get the book there? And, and all of your books?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Brain Fitness blueprint. There's a 30 day program that we put together. My co author, Rashika Sakri, she was the head of Google Wellness. She's retired now, but she was the head of Google Wellness and she brought a lot of great insights into the workplace. But we need to remember, your brain is not designed for the life you're living today. We need to change it up. Technology is a problem, but we can use technology to solve that and they can use Brain Tap to do that.
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So Braintap as well is on the drpatrickporter.com they can go there. Or braintap.com.
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right.
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Okay, got it. Yeah, so go check it out.
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TryBraintap.com too. They can go there.
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Okay. Yeah, focus folks. Go check it out. This is my guy. I vouch for him. I use Braintap. And he's, you know, he's just an amazing guy and I appreciate it. And if you have any questions, reach out to him. Dr. Patrick Porter, thank you so much for trusting that one and being a part of our family and everything that you're doing for the world, man. I really appreciate it.
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Well, thank you. I appreciate what you do.
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All right. Thank you. Hang tight while I wrap this up, folks. That's this episode of the what do you Made of Show. Make sure you go check out drpatrickporter. Com, braintap. Com, and also hit subscribe. Follow at the top of your favorite podcast platform. And until next time, be that one.