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Welcome back to the what are you made of Show. It's your boy C Rock here. And we are going to find out what Tracy Dues is made of today. But I think she's made up of mostly water, but we're going to find out what else. That was probably corny. That was a dad joke. I mean, you know, my daughter busted my chops all the time about the. My sense of humor. However, Tracy, welcome to the show.
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Hey, thanks for having me.
A
Did you laugh at that joke or no?
B
I was laughing, but actually, there's so much truth to it that you don't need to laugh because it's real. We're made of 99 water molecules. So you. Yeah, correct in your statement.
A
Well, you know what makes good comedy, right? A good comedy, like, comedian that's on stage doing stand up is they're talking about truths.
B
Yeah, exactly.
A
If it wasn't true, people would be like, I don't get it.
B
Yeah, they wouldn't get it.
A
Right.
B
It got to be real to be relatable.
A
Yeah. Yeah. Well, welcome to the show. Let's. Let's get into it. I. I start the show the same way every time, and it is with a question, which is an esoteric question. What are you made of besides water?
B
Made up besides water? Gosh. It's an esoteric question I made up.
A
It doesn't have to be, but I
B
made up of a lot of love. That's what I would say.
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Okay.
B
Okay.
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Elaborate.
B
Okay, Mike. Well, I think that when you ask someone what they're made of, a lot of time you're asking for, like, what have you been through? Who are you?
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Right.
B
So I think we all can relate to the fact that life in this meat suit has struggles that come with it. And because of the struggles, we get to choose what we want to do with those, and we want to alchemize them and make them into. Choose to make them into an opportunity, or do we want to, I don't know, just sit in them and complain about it? So what I'm made of is looking for opportunities in life. And I think that when we're sitting on the fire, like, the biggest pain, we want to move. It's like, oh, my gosh, this hurts. I don't like this. So how do we shapeshift it? How do we transform it? And for me, my biggest thing was going through my health struggles as a very young child. I grew up in an area where some people may know, this area, it's called the salad bowl capital of the world. Salinas California and we were crop dusted with pesticides. I mean, just constantly I was surrounded by them. And if you look at your DNA, we all have different types of methylation processes in our DNA and mine. I'm so lucky to have DNA that has some methyl breaks in it where that means I don't detoxify as effectively or efficiently as some people might. So when those toxins are coming into my system, as a child I felt super sick, nauseous, tired, and I would look at other kids on the playground and wonder, why do I feel different than them? But I couldn't understand what that was at that time. And so I always had a compassion for people that didn't feel well. And that led me to really wanting to help people feel great in their body and to understand how I could feel great in my body. And so I started, I was homeschooled as a child and I was like, this isn't fun. I don't have community, I don't have connection here. So I want to get out of this. And I started pre med college when I was 15 and just so amped up about, I want to help everyone feel better, I want to go to medical school and help people. So that was my journey. And then my parents were missionaries, so that was so cool because they gave me this opportunity to travel to indigenous villages. When I was very young, 16, I was in Guatemala, shadowing a doctor in an indigenous village and helping him get vaccinations, do surgery, all of these things that he was doing. He allowed me to shadow him for the summer. And so I was able to observe what it would be like to be an allopathic medical doctor. And something during that did not resonate with me. I thought, I want to help people, but not by cutting them open or giving them vaccinations, although those things are necessary. It wasn't something that I wanted to spend my life doing, helping people. So I thought, I, I don't know what I'm going to do now, maybe I'll go into business. So I changed my whole trajectory. But going Back to, at 24 years old, I got pregnant for my daughter Grace, and we almost both didn't make it because I had a mineral imbalance that went undetected. And the more water I kept drinking, the more I was stripping my body of minerals and the more my body got stripped of minerals, the thirstier I became. But then I kept drinking more water because I thought that that was the solution. And it ended up that I had to have an emergency cesarean but from that struggle, I realized that water is not just water. There is all kinds of water, and to hydrate properly is not about just how much water you drink. And so it sent me on this whole path of wanting to go back to school to understand frequency medicine, and now frequency medicine is my jam. But helping people learn to feel empowered about their body in a playful way. So there's so many ways that we can get healthy, so many biohacks, so many things we can do. But if we're not making it fun, then it's just another job we have to do. So how do we learn about our body, get educated, and understand how we can help ourselves feel better, and then find ways to implement it that are super fun and playful? That's what I'm made of.
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Yeah, well, great, great answer. I. I love that. You know, and the thing is, is that we're in a world right now where biohacking longevity is a big topic, right? There's almost gimmicks and different things out there. A lot of good marketers that really don't know what they're talking about, or people that you're just trying to make money. It's kind of dangerous. But the foundational things. I brought this up to someone the other day on the show, and I was like, man, we gotta talk about the foundational things. Sleep, hydration, you know, recovery, you know, make sure you're eating the right healthy foods, whole foods. And, and the. The guy said to me, he's like, yeah, but that's not sexy to market, you know, and. And you got to be sexy and get attention. And I was like, yeah, that's true. But, but, but what you're saying is, is make it fun, and make it fun could make it sexy, you know, by the way, what you're talking about, and correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no doctor and I didn't go to college for this stuff, but I did hang around a lot of cool people that know some things. You're talking about intracellular hydration, and you didn't have intracellular, you had extracellular.
B
Wow.
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So the water wasn't getting into your cells, right?
B
Yeah, that's right. Yeah. The water was not balanced between my intracellular and extracellular fluid. And yes, I did have some edema during the pregnancy. The water was more outside the cell, and we want to have that balance. And if we don't have a. Our. We do not have the correct mineral balance, then that is going to affect our hydration. There's a Lot of things that impact hydration. You know, our cellular integrity, cellular health, all of that is really crucial for hydration. So we are taught as a society that if you drink more water, you'll be hydrated. And that is just a facet of the truth. There's so much more to learn and explore that we can enjoy and experience to help our bodies evolve and be healthier. And that's what I spend my time doing, is helping people learn how to explore your body, how to learn how to optimize it so you can look good, feel good, and be present for life so that you're not imprisoned to a body that maybe is in pain or. You know, even our brain being 2% dehydrated is going to affect cognition. So a lot of us feel impaired by our brain foggy thoughts, our mood is impaired. And so much of this can be addressed through just having healthy cells and healthy hydration. And our cells are so intelligent, we're so divinely created. But if they're not communicating with each other, well, then how can they do their job? And water is the conduit for that communication.
A
Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, the gallon of water a day thing that people hear about. Right. I was trying to do that for a while, and I. I had a hard time breathing, like taking a deep breath when I drank too much water. Yeah. Not to mention the bathroom trips. Right. You know, if you drink so much, it's like if you're hitting the bathroom every five minutes.
B
And that's like me, right?
A
Like, no, not at all. And I. I had a high trouble getting deep breaths, and I didn't know what it was. And then I stopped drinking a gallon of water a day and just drank, you know, enough, and it went away. And I was just like, wait a minute. This. Something. Something isn't right with this. And this is one of those things that's marketed very well but not explained. And it doesn't work for everyone. You know, it's. Yeah. So. So. Have you ever heard of that before?
B
Oh, yeah. I mean, a lot of time when we're drinking water, if our digestive system has some sort of dysbiosis in it and we're not, you know, it's. It's not working as effectively as it could. A lot of times there's gases and the water gets stuck and it's just sitting there and you ever have that, like, washing machine sound where you move and it's like, I hear water in my stomach because it's just. It's sitting there and it's trapped probably by gas or something. That's not, you know, it's not, it's not going through the way it needs to. And the whole goal is to get it into the cells, not have it just sitting in your colon. I mean, we do want it in our colon to hydrate the colon, but if, if it's feeling like it's just kind of trapped there, then there's probably some dysbiosis in your, in your gut that we get to explore and have fun exploring. Like we could make that fun and exciting.
A
Yeah. And, and what are some ways to get water into the cells so that you have a higher percentage of intracellular hydration? Like, what are a few ways that people can focus on?
B
Okay, that's an excellent question. I love that question. It starts with a lot of things. So my book Hydrate talks about the nine pillars of health and how to get water into our cells. And it's far beyond just the water that we drink. But I'm going to start with the water because that seems the most basic. So the water that we drink, we want to make sure that it's clean, but we also need to make sure there's minerals in the water so that our body can utilize that well. It's. It goes back to the structure of the water. Right. And the ph, and that's what's going to be the most effective for getting into the cell. So if your body is, if you're ingesting water that's distilled water, or reverse osmosis water that is lacking the minerals, then your body has to work a lot harder to pull minerals, structure the water and get it so that it's that right ph, that right structure so that it gets into the cell. But if you're drinking water that's already beautifully designed by God, spring water, artesian water, then your body has to work not as hard to hydrate the cells. So I say start with water that is designed the way God intended it, that's mineralized, that structured, that has movement to it. Water should be moving. You go to a living stream and it's moving and vortexing and flowing. There's power, there's energy, there's life force in it. There's liberated oxygen, hydrogen molecules. It's so nourishing, not to mention the frequencies and the energy in it. That's like a whole other topic. But no one can say they've been to a living stream and not enjoyed that water. If we're opening up the tap and drinking water or putting Our tap water in a Brita filter or reverse osmosis filter. That's a whole different system. It's a whole different experience that our body is going through, and there's a whole different process to hydrate the cells. So just start with water. That's spring water. And if you don't have access to a local spring, then you can mimic spring water at home by filtering your water, then making sure it's remineralized with a comprehensive set of minerals, and then spinning the water, vortexing the water, getting some movement in the water. You can even put the water in the sunlight and the moon and help charge the water that way. So there's different things you can do, but the water you drink is important.
A
Yeah, the type. All right, and when you mentioned structured water, what do you mean by that?
B
So water, all water has some sort of structure to it. We want water that's coherently structured water that has a structure that is resonant with our body and our cells. So there's this famous researcher called Masaru Emoto, and a lot of people know of him because he became popular in social media with these water droplets, these water crystals that he took. And he would speak a word over the water and say, hate. And then you'd see this dissonant, incoherent structure. Or he would say a word like love or beauty or something of that nature. And then you would see this beautiful snowflake crystalline structure that gives us an idea of structure. Now, a moto is not considered by scientists as somebody that you would look at and say, this is true science, because he could not replicate his work. But what I love about what he discovered in his showing is that there's something more to water, and. And that structure is something that matters, and that water does have structure. So you look at water and you're like, well, this is liquid. It's moving. Doesn't have any structure to it, but it does. It's just those hydrogen bonds are changing, and the way that they come together is changing, and it's changing very rapidly. But if you freeze water, you put water in the freezer, and you find it in its fourth phase, which is between liquid and frozen. You will see the structure in the water that it creates, and it changes based on its environment, based on the minerals, based on where it came from. You could take water from a spring and then water from the tap, and you're going to see a completely different structure in that.
A
Love it. Love it. All right, thank you for the explanation. What about creatine have you looked at the creatine and what it does for intracellular hydration?
B
Yeah. So creatine really helps draw hydration into our muscles, our tissues. And I personally am somebody that uses creatine. I also caution on it because it's so prevalent out there, and there's a lot of white powders on the market that unless they're third party tested, you want to be really careful. There could be other contaminants in there that are not worth it. And there's also. I'm not a chemist, so I'm looking more into understanding a little bit more about creatine and the pathways because I do have some questions about it. So I'm not going to advocate for it because that's not my specialty. But I do personally take it right now. I will also disclose that I'm doing more research.
A
Okay. How many milligrams do you take per day?
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I do about five.
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Okay, five. Yeah, me too. Yeah, sometimes I'll hit seven, 10, depends. But there's a great podcast that just came out recently with Stephen Bartlett on Diary CEO, and he had a gentleman that was a creatine expert on there. So check that out when you get a chance.
B
Okay.
A
Really good information. Yeah. And it debunks some myths around creatine I thought was pretty cool. All right. I'm always intrigued by those that have podcasts and those that have, you know, built a social media following and built a brand and all that. When did you start to realize that, wait a minute, hey, I need to build a brand, I need to get known?
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Probably during COVID I, I, like you, am somebody that's very interested in real estate. I have participated in the real estate game, and that's where a lot of the success that I experience has come from. And I kind of, during COVID realized that I get to make a choice. I'm going to either invest in another real estate project or I want to invest in my personal brand. And that felt kind of scary at the time because I didn't really know what that meant. But I also knew that, who else can I invest in but myself? Like, because I know me, I know what I love and I know what I'm good at. And it just felt right. Something about it just felt like, this is what I need to do, even though I had no idea what I was doing.
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Yeah. You know what? Most people that have success have no idea how they're going to do what they're trying to do. Yeah, right. Those that are successful, the ones that Commit. They commit to this vision, and then they figure it out along the way. But you. If you're not committed, when it gets tough or, you know, you have a setback, you get discouraged or whatever, like, you'll quit. So it's like, there's a commitment that happens. So you had some kind of experience at some point where you are like, I need to do this. And you committed to it, right? Because you wouldn't reach out to some of the people you've reached out to to have them on your show if you weren't committed.
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Yeah, exactly.
A
And I saw. I saw. I mean, there's people been on your show that I know that are in my network that are part of our. That one network. Like Ben Greenfield, who else? I saw some others on there. But you wouldn't. You wouldn't reach out to those. You. You wouldn't. Because you'd feel like, you know, imposter syndrome comes in. Who am I to have somebody like that that's got a big brand on my show? I went through all of that, and you get, yeah, that commitment has got to be there, you know, and then the other thing is, like, when you did start to have your podcast, right, and then start wanting to have certain guests on your show take us through that process, like, what was that like?
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I feel like mine was a different process in the sense that it was a very unique time. So during COVID I hope I don't get in trouble for this, but.
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Sorry.
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People were saying, you need to separate. And deep in my heart, I felt like the biggest thing we can do is create connection and community with people. That, to me, just felt so strong in my heart. You know, community is immunity, and we need deeper connections, not surface connections, and we don't need to be pulled apart. So I guess I started throwing super spreader parties. Well, that's what they called them. But no one at my parties got sick. There's not one person I know of that got sick. We got healthier, and we thrived more. And people from all around started coming to my house in San Diego because there wasn't a lot of places for connection and for people to spend time together. So I got to meet a lot of very influential people that I probably would have never met because they heard about my party and they came and then they invited their friends, and my network started to really grow. And that was how really my social media grew, was that I became known as somebody that was their parties where people would come over, and we didn't have alcohol. We were I was making these drinks.
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I have a dog too, so don't. All good. Don't worry about it.
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I was making these drinks, a bunch of herbs, and I was just throwing things together that were mineralizing people, giving them nourishment. And we were just having fun and we were connecting and we were playing. I mean, I have all kinds of, like, fun play things all around my house, like a huge trampoline and balance boards and Indian clubs and an adult treehouse, and people are just enjoying each other, having great conversations. And really, that's how it kind of started, was people started to say, what's in your drinks? I want you to give me the recipe. And so that's how the book started was like, I'll put do these recipes, but also, how do you incorporate health in a fun, playful way? So the way I was throwing the parties and the things I was learning about health, I'm like, I want to make a coffee table book where it's like you could open it up to any page and learn something fun, playful, exciting. Learn science in a really a way that's like, yeah, I could do that today. And that seems fun and I'm excited to do it.
A
Yeah, love that. Love that. That was unique, you know, like, you know who was doing that. And. And of course, like, back then, man, it was crazy because people would, like, get so offended by that. I remember being on planes, I mentioned earlier, before we hit record, I was in Vegas during COVID It was like a zombie land. Like, not. You didn't see zombies, but it was just vacant. Like, there was nobody. I'd never seen anything like it. And, you know, on the planes and everything, you know, if you weren't wearing your mask, you slipped it off for a minute, people would look at you like you're nuts. And I just. I couldn't wrap my head around it. I still. I still went to the. To the gym, quote, unquote. Our trainer that's at the gym, they set up a garage gym, and we would go over there and train, and we weren't. You know, I wasn't wearing a mask. You kidding me? Like, I want my. I want my. I wanted my immune system to go through something, if it was going to go through something to build and get stronger, you know, it just didn't make sense to me in my head, you know, And I think there was some of us that saw patterns like that, that recognized it. And there's other people that are unfortunately just sheep and they go along with what they're told. Yeah, And I'm just not that kind of guy. And you don't seem like to be that kind of lady either, so. Yeah, that's awesome. All right, so the other thing is. Well, let's get in. Let's get into some questions that I wanted to ask you at the end of the show here. Let's just fire away. Okay. Whatever's on the top of your head from these. So, you know, we don't need to put a lot of thinking into this. What, Whatever. If someone drinks eight glasses of water a day and still feels terrible, what do you think's really going on with them?
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There's a lot of things that could be going on with them. I.
A
What's the first thing that comes to mind?
B
Well, when you say feel terrible, they still not.
A
They're still not feeling right.
B
Are they in pain? Is it.
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No, they're just still not feeling. Just. They're just not feeling right. They're feeling the quality, right? Probably, like you mentioned, the quality. That's what came to mind already. The. The type of water they're drinking. Maybe. I don't know. What do you think?
B
If we're talking about a dehydration issue, it probably is something to do with the quality of water, but it's so much more because it's not just the quality of water we drink. You could be drinking amazing water all day long, but if you're sitting inside the house under junk food lighting, you're not going outside and getting full spectrum sunlight that's charging yourselves up, or you're not moving, you're sitting on the couch all day and that body of water that you are is stagnant and it's not flowing inside, then you're going to feel really bad and you're probably that stagnant, that stagnation is going to cause pain. You're gonna probably have your blood sugar off and feel gross and not feel optimal. So it's far beyond just the water that you drink. It's really the lifestyle. And that's why I have the nine pillars of health that I came up with in my book. Because I owned a wellness clinic and functional medicine retreat for 17 years. And I have so many people, high level entrepreneurs, like probably your listeners, who think, I don't have time to be healthy and do all the things, just tell me what I need to do, what pill I need to take, what biohacker I need, I will pay for it. I don't care. Just name it and we'll do it. And so those people were coming in, and they wanted me to give them pills, they wanted me to give them a biohack. And what I realized is they just weren't doing the nine basics of sleeping well, getting minerals, getting hydration, moving, having meaningful relationships, actually having playtime in their life. These kind of things are what bring us alive and bring our water body alive and help us thrive and be hydrated. And so I said, you know what? I'm going to stop focusing on these protocols and just go back to basics with people, because most people are missing the basics. And what I discovered is that when people went back to the basics, like drinking spring water, moving every day, getting some sunlight, having deep connections, being present, their pain started to go away, their symptoms started to diminish, and they weren't buying anything. They weren't doing anything. It wasn't some magic pill. It was actually living the way that God designed us to live. And that became so important to me to share. And then I thought, like you said at the beginning of the show, how do you make that sexy, though? Because the basics are not sexy. The way we make it sexy is playtime. Making all of these things something that we get to do. Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited to go do these nine pillars because it's so much fun. So the book is my whole life and my whole message is about how to get back to the basics, but to make it something that is so exciting that you get to do every day.
A
What. What's the name of the book, by the way?
B
It's called Hydrate.
A
Hydrate. Oh, very simple. Hydrate.
B
Go.
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Go check it out, folks. Go get that book. Hey, the other thing is, I never heard somebody talk about why sedentary life is not good for you. The way you just described it having to do with moving water around. Like, get it moving. Like, if you think about a. A body of water, let's say it's a stream, but it's not streaming, that water gets nasty and stagnant. Right. And so, yeah, so you want a stream that's got, like, little. Little pitch to it so that the water can flow, runs against the rocks, picks up minerals, but also filters the water, all that stuff, Right? Yeah. So your body's the same way.
B
Really? Smart guy.
A
Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, but I. I never thought of it that way, honestly, until you just described it. That's that way. So thank you for that.
B
Is the new, what they say, like smoking a pack of cigarettes because your body is not moving? You have to, like, you described it so well. If you walk near a body of water that's just been sitting there for months, for a long time. It starts to grow this yellow foam and junk and things.
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Yeah. Algae green. Nasty.
B
Yeah, yeah, nasty. You go to a living stream that's moving and the water is brilliant. It's gorgeous. You can smell the oxygen. You can just feel the energy of it. And that if you look at your body as a water body, you're going to. You think of it that way. I need to keep it moving and through, like, massage, too, because our fascia has little water droplets. We call that the irrigation system of our body. It's like that gets impinged. You know, get something where you're working out and it gets tight or the fascia gets knotted and the water's not moving and it gets dry and dehydrated, and there's like. Think that the fluid's pooling. You're going to have pain.
A
So guess what, guess what, guess what. When you're saying this, I'm just thinking of all these things that are going on in my house right now. So my wife just bought one of those boards you stand on. It vibrates, right? Not. Not a vibrator, but a board that vibrates. But make sure that everybody out there is, like, you know, not getting confused with what I'm talking about here. A board you stand on, and if you stand on it for 10 minutes, it, like, counts the calories it's burning. But not only that, it's going to move things around and it's going to move the water around in your body. And I. I did it the other day, and I'm like, oh, wow. It didn't seem like I did a lot of work or anything, but it burnt, like, 300 calories in 10 minutes, according to the machine.
B
Did you feel a lot? Yeah.
A
Oh, yeah. Forget about it. Like, it was. It was ridiculous. So I'm going to be standing on that thing daily. Um, and. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So what is a health habit people brag about? That actually isn't helping them.
B
Dang. That's a good question. I would say their supplement stack, you know, or that they drink a gallon of water a day.
A
Right.
B
If you're not doing the basics, then none of that stuff's going to work for you. It's just like having a junky water body and you're just throwing more stuff in it. If I had that pool of water that we talked about that's gross and foamy and yellow, and then I just threw some vitamins into it, it's not helping. What we need to do is get things moving, get things cleansed, get things purified, get our detoxification pathways working, and then we can add all of that good nutrition. But it's kind of pointless. And you're wasting your money if you're not doing the basics. The nine pillars. If you're not doing that, you're going to be just wasting your money.
A
Yeah, yeah, I agree. So many supplements out there. Like, there's times where I have to go through what we're taking, my family and I, and like, okay, let's try to eliminate some of these things, you know what I mean? Because you find some new thing and we do our research. But still, do I need it? Like the money that's going out and what it's doing, possibly to the body, that might not be helpful. You gotta. You gotta. You gotta go just like you go through your closets and your shoes and what have you to get rid of some things, you gotta make space in your supplement cabinet, you know? All right, what's the symptom? People normalize. That should actually scare them.
B
I would say sitting, you know. Oh, a symptom.
A
No, a symptom. Yeah, symptom.
B
Oh, a symptom. Mood changes. Like, when your mood gets down or you get angry or you're feeling like for no reason. Obviously there's reasons for that time and place. But if you're just, like, moody all the time, there's probably something going on. It's probably because you don't feel good, right? You have some sort of blood sugar imbalance, you're dehydrated, your cells aren't communicating. Like, when we feel good, we're happy. We're like, you know what? Even if something's coming your way, that's not the most exciting. You're like, I can handle this. I got this. This is an opportunity. But. But when you're feeling imprisoned in your body and you're not feeling good, then everything feels harder. And so I think that's a symptom that a lot of us normalize is pain in your body or just overall, like, emotionally feeling flat.
A
Yeah, yeah. I mean, some people just deal with it. They think they. That this is the way life is. It's crazy. You're realizing that you can do something about it. All right, final thing here. Oh, go ahead, go ahead.
B
That totally used to be me. And that's why I'm so excited to share this message. Because, like I mentioned at the beginning of the show, I grew up where my body Was very toxic. And I felt sick all the time. I felt my mood was kind of flat, and I didn't realize that it was because I was. I felt like a prisoner in my body. And it wasn't until I felt good and felt healthy that I realized that contrast. And now that I feel the way that I do, so amazing. I wake up, I don't have pain. I feel excited about the day. I feel clear. I'm not saying that's every day, but for the most part. And that contrast between the way I used to feel and the way I feel now, I just want everybody to have the opportunity to feel that way as well. And these basics are what made that happen for me. And so I just feel excited to share good news that's free.
A
Yeah. You know, you mentioned, like, being stuck in your body and having to deal with it, like your soul, your spirit or whatever. That's a frequency. Right. And we don't realize, like, if we can get to frequency up to a high frequency, then gives you more control over your body.
B
Yeah.
A
People. People don't. Don't realize that. That they have the power to do that. And, you know, I always say, like, you know, emotions are a frequency as well. And the higher you can be with your emotions, emotions in a. The higher tone of emotion. Excited, exhilarated, happy. Everything always works out.
B
It does.
A
It's when you're not and you're in the lower bands, the lower frequencies, that things don't work out, you know, and it's wild. People don't realize that they have control over that. All right, final question here, Tracy. If we followed your nine pillars, it's nine of them, right? From your book.
B
Nine. Yeah.
A
So if we followed your nine pillars, right, what would change that would surprise us the most?
B
That you would not even recognize yourself. You'd wake up and be like, who this? You know, like, I feel amazing. And I didn't need to buy a pill. I didn't need to buy some crazy machine, some biohack. I just started doing these basics, and I feel this good. Like, it can't be that easy.
A
I don't have to stand on this vibrating plate thing.
B
I'm not saying these things are bad. Like, if you walk through my house, you're going to find every biohack, every pill. I have, all of that stuff. But I also had it when I felt bad, too. And those weren't the things that were making me feel good. I needed to have a clean vessel to be able to utilize these things so they could work inside my body, when my cells were in left spin, they were locked. It's like the nutrients can't get in, the toxins can't get out, and. And I was stuck. So it wasn't until I really shifted those frequencies, shifted that water body so that I could be a conduit for health. Then all of those biohacks and all of those fun things, now they work awesome.
A
Well, we're up against the clock, so that was a great conversation, great information. I hope you all got something out of this. Tracy, where can people go deeper with you?
B
They can find me on Instagram at Tracy Duse T R a C Y D U H s or at my website, tracydews.com There you go, folks.
A
Tracy, thank you so much for your time today. I really appreciate you being here. All right, hang tight while I wrap this up, folks. That's this episode of the what He Made up show with Tracy Du sharing what she's made of. Make sure you hit the subscribe follow button at the top of your favorite podcast platform and keep coming back. Until next time. Be that one.
Podcast: What Are You Made Of?
Host: Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco
Episode: The Missing Link to Better Health: Tracy Duhs on Hydration, Minerals & Human Performance
Date: June 29, 2026
Guest: Tracy Duhs – Hydration expert, author of "Hydrate," wellness advocate
In this enriching conversation, Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco dives deep with Tracy Duhs into the often misunderstood world of hydration, cellular health, and human performance. Tracy shares her compelling personal and professional journey, illuminating the central role of minerals, structured water, and lifestyle basics in optimal health. The episode stands out for reframing hydration as a playful, foundational, and science-backed pillar for vitality, rather than just a wellness cliché or biohacking trend.
"I grew up in an area...we were crop dusted with pesticides...I don't detoxify as effectively as some people...I felt super sick, nauseous, tired." (01:14)
"I had a high trouble getting deep breaths...I stopped drinking a gallon of water a day and just drank enough, and it went away." (09:03)
"Start with water that is designed the way God intended...mineralized, structured, that has movement to it." (11:44)
"Water does have structure...If you freeze water...you will see the structure in the water that it creates, and it changes based on its environment." (13:25)
"I'm not going to advocate for it because that's not my specialty. But I do personally take it right now...I will also disclose that I'm doing more research." (15:36)
"Community is immunity, and we need deeper connections, not surface connections." (19:24)
"If you're not doing the basics, then none of that stuff's going to work for you." (29:18)
"If you look at your body as a water body...you need to keep it moving...If you walk near a body of water that's just been sitting there...it starts to grow this yellow foam and junk..." (27:16)
On comedy and truth:
"You don't need to laugh because it's real. We're made of 99 water molecules." — Tracy, (00:24)
On why hydration is misunderstood:
"Society teaches that if you drink more water, you’ll be hydrated. That is just a facet of the truth." — Tracy, (07:05)
On biohacking culture:
"Foundational things...not sexy to market...But if we make it fun, we make it sexy." — C-Roc, (06:01)
On basics vs. supplements:
"If you're not doing the basics, then none of that stuff's going to work for you." — Tracy, (29:18)
On mood as a warning sign:
"If you’re just moody all the time, there’s probably something going on...blood sugar imbalance, you’re dehydrated, your cells aren’t communicating." — Tracy, (30:47)
On the power of lifestyle:
"When people went back to basics...drinking spring water, moving every day, getting some sunlight, having deep connections, being present...their pain started to go away." — Tracy, (23:41)
On the ultimate transformation:
"You’d wake up and be like: 'Who’s this?' I feel amazing. And I didn’t need to buy a pill, some crazy machine, some biohack. It can’t be that easy." — Tracy, (33:48)
This episode is a must-listen for those seeking a fresh, holistic, and empowering perspective on foundational health and resilient human performance. Tracy Duhs brings both science and soul, making hydration—and healthy living—accessible, playful, and powerful.